Tranfering Linux

[Joshua Altemoos]

What i am doing is bring the hard drives to the meeting and pete said he
can move the linux from the smaller hard drives to the bigger one. And i
have a full copy of xp corp. I will haev xp format the smaller one. I
currently use grub so how cna i add a entry for XP into it or will i be
shown at the meeting? Thanks
Josh

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 14:25, Kevin E. Glosser wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 13:56, Joshua Altemoos wrote:
> > Okay Thanks after what you sia di guess haveing WINXP on the primary hd
> > is not so bad. Becuase ATN linux is on the prim a 6.4 HD but i am
> > haveing that moved to a 40 gig this sunday and having it slave since a;;
> > the problems it would cause. I plan on having XP as FAT32.i can do this
> > rigth? Thanks
> 
> Yeah, "move" the hard drives if you have to. If you are changing one
> from master to slave or vice versa you may have to change a jumper on
> it.
> 
> FAT32 is fine. I don't believe XP minds what filesystem you pick,
> between either FAT32 or NTFS5.1. The XP installer will ask you to select
> the partition to install the operating system on. It will allow you to
> play with partition creation as well. It won't format ALL of your
> partitions, just the primary one you install XP to. You can format the
> others afterwards inside of XP.
> 
> Oh! I should point out one more thing...I ran the XP(UPDATE) installer
> by booting from the Windows XP CD itself. This is necessary if you do
> NOT have a previous version of Windows on the hard drive you are putting
> it on. For instance, if you are installing XP to a blank hard drive. You
> just boot to the CD(may have to change setting in your BIOS to do this).
> During the install, if you are installing XP from a "UPDATE" CD as
> opposed to a "FULL" version, you will be asked to "prove" you have a
> valid version of Windows. You'll be asked to put a previous version of
> windows into your CD drive. I used Windows98update CD.
> 
> At home I'm running XP on my master drive, Redhat 9.0 on my slave, with
> Grub as my bootloader installed to the MBR. There are other ways to
> accomplish what you are trying, but this is most elegant solution to
> this specific situation.
> 
> KEG
>