Moving a w98 installation

31 Aug 2001

      Hi

I have two hard drives, the better of which is the first (hda1). I dual boot 
w98 and SuSE 7.2.  Because of the way that w98 insists on being on the first 
drive I have it installed as hda1 and SuSE on the rest of the first drive.  
At the moment I use the second (hdb) older slower drive as a spare mainly for 
backups and test installs.  I want to put w98 on that drive and I understand 
that if I use grub rather than lilo I can then set grub to fool w98 into 
thinking that is on  the first drive.  Rather than going through another 
painful w98 install I'd like to just move the present w98 install to that 
drive.  Is there a linux utility that I can use to do this ?  That is create 
an image of the win98 install, move it to hdb1 and then set up grub to boot 
it so I can check that it works before I remove it from hda1 and reorganise 
that drive ?

The w98 partition is about 4.0 gigs and the second drive is 6.4 gigs.

Thanks for any pointers anyone can offer.

Mike

michael norman

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