On 05/24/2003 03:51 AM, Mike McCallister wrote:
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.
I did almost the exact same thing about a month ago.
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?
Yes, assuming it is big enough.
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)?
You can just boot from the 8.0 DVD, boot installed system, write lilo to the MBR (which will be replaced by XP install), and you may be done, if you install as FAT32 (same as win98). If you format as NTFS, you would need to change fstab.
Is there anything else I need to plan for (aside from backing everything up, which is my plan anyway)?
The install that I did was on a fairly fresh 8.0 install, so I did not back up, and I had no problems. I installed XP with FAT32 so that I could use that partition rw from both OSes. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.