John Meier wrote: > > > On 12/27/05, *Steve Linabery* <slinabery at worldcycling.com > <mailto:slinabery at worldcycling.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sorry in advance if this is common knowledge or in an > archive...I'm being lazy. > > The time has finally come for me to retire Win98se for my gaming > platform at home. > > On my home computer, I have Win98se on win_disk, FC4 on lin_disk. > Grub handles booting with MBR on win_disk. > > What I figured I would do is: > -1) buy winXP "pro" > 0) boot linux > 1) mount win_disk as VFAT and tar the entire disk onto lin_disk > (for eventually restoring saved games & other data to the new > windows) > 2) physically disconnect both drives, install new higher capacity > disk (let's call it xp_disk!), install xp to new disk > 3) reconnect disk lin_disk > 4) boot from FC4 install CDs and see what happens > > > > I would think you could just buy an xp upgrade and upgrade 98. > Windows won't see the linux stuff, but it may srcew with the MBR - in > which case you could just repair/reintall grub (maybe from FC install > discs? I have no experiecne with fc4 though...) I've done a similar procedure (I wouldn't call it an upgrade!) before. I had a similar setup many years ago, copied the linux boot loader info, rewrote boot.ini and used the windows boot loader to boot into linux. There are several howtos out there but this is the first I found tonight that looks vaguely familiar. http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/networking/100080119.asp Just an option... Good luck. Timo