Re: Upgrade dual boot machine

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 05:34 -0700, Joe Huber wrote:
> I'm going to tread into sort of forbidden territory here...
>
> I've got a dual boot machine - Debian and Windows 2000. I find myself having
> to upgrade (or I guess down grade depending on how you look at it) 2000 to
> XP. Has anyone ventured down a path similar to this in the past? I've got a
> LAMP setup on the Debian side (trying to learn some web stuff) and well...
> I'm afraid that something bad could happen to the Debian side when I put the
> CD in. It took me the better part of a week a couple months ago to get the
> PHP build (some hang up with a library related to using PDFs) and I wouldn't
> want to have to go rebuild the Debian.
>
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prior to installing WinXP...

1. print out a partition map so you know which stuff is in which
partition.

df -h

fdisk /dev/hda -l

2. make sure that you have a working boot disk, can boot it and can
chroot to your Linux installation...if using a 2.4 kernel, you should be
able to make a floppy boot disk with mkbootdisk command. If using a 2.6
kernel, you will probably need a boot cd and have to chroot to your
current set up in order to fix the boot loader.

3. Know which boot loader you are using (grub or lilo) and learn how to
'reassert' it (grub-install /dev/hda - lilo -v)

Then after you install WinXP, it will have over-written boot blocks, you
can get it back - (the dual boot)

Craig

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