On Sun, 19 May 2002 02:33, Prashant Nayak wrote: > Hi > > I am planning to upgrade to 8.2. I currently have 8.1 installed and all > the Linux partitions are on a second (slave) drive. My primary drive has > Windows. > > I would like to get rid of the Windows install on the primary and use that > drive with Linux. I want to maintain my existing (non root) partitions > that are on the slave drive. > > I'd appreciate advice from this forum. > > Thanks > > Prashant
Prashant, you can: 1. Keep all of your 8.1 intact and dual boot. 2. Keep some of your 8.1 intact and read those partitions from 8.2 for 1: a. Install 8.2, as part of the install during your partition setup, set the mountpoints for your 8.1 drive (my two 7.1 partitions are /old and /old/home) DON'T format those partitions. b.1 when 8.2 is running, copy two files from 8.1's /boot to 8.2's boot. vmlinuz-2.X.XX-Xmdk and initrd-2.X.XX-Xmdk.img. This must be the files with the version numbers as the others are symlinks that point to them. b.2 make a backup of your 8.2 /etc/lilo.conf i.e. cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf~ b.3 copy the lilo stanza you use in 8.1's /etc/lilo.conf for lilo boot and add it to 8.2's /etc/lilo.conf - Rename the label of the copied stanza to linux81 or whatever you want to call it (spaces won't work - not sure about quoted label names with spaces). - Change the "image=/boot/vmlinuz" for this stanza to read image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.X.XX-Xmdk (So it points to the one you copied from 8.1). - Change the initrd=/boot/initrd.img to read initrd=/boot/initrd-2.X.XX-Xmdk.img (ditto) - save the changes b.4 on a command line type "lilo" and watch for any errors. If all is well it will quote back: Added linux * Added linux81 Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added floppy c. reboot and enjoy the choice. for 2: follow step a above only. By the way, glad to see someone else go windows free. Michael
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