Hi folks!
I have been happily dual-booting SuSE 8.0 and Win98 for quite awhile now, booting from a SuSE LILO floppy. But I now need to install WinXP Pro for work. I'd like to do this with a minimum of fuss, but I need some advice.
Will it be possible to just blow away my current Win98 partition, keep it the same size and install XP without it doing anything to the Linux partitions? If its big enough for XP. I would give 3GB minumum to XP (unless you can store
Will I have to re-make the boot floppy, and if so, would I need to boot from the SuSE DVD (that isn't a problem)? Unfortuantly Windows will NUKE lilo, grub and whatever other boot loader is
On Friday 23 May 2003 02:51 pm, Mike McCallister wrote: programs and other data elsewhere also). Just be very careful not to touch your linux partitions. I would recommend 5-7GB to it, but in your case I wouldn't try to resize the drive beyond what 98 was using. By default Windows will ask about 6 times if you want to delete a partition. Just make sure to delete the old 98 one and format the new one over it as NTFS. As a BARE minumum, i think 1 GIG can squeeze by....but not by much. there. It shouldnt be a problem to boot from DVD or floppy and re-install lilo or grub, esp. if you already have a working configuration. If you were already dual-booting to 98, then you should have a working configuration to boot into XP esp. if you install OVER the old partition. I see no problems with using what you already have with no modifications.
Is there anything else I need to plan for (aside from backing everything up, which is my plan anyway)? I can't think of anything else. I dual boot on my laptop 8.2 and XP Professional. I've tried to do this on my desktop, but a secondary master IDE disk along with LILO on a SCSI chain makes this VERY complicated. I never was able to do a mixed SCSI/IDE boot.
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