This is just to share a little success story and get it into the archives, in case anyone else finds it useful.
Given a multiboot hard drive with Win98 SE on hda1 (1 gig FAT16), I wanted to move everything to a new, larger drive, with a 6G FAT32 Windows parititon. Yes, as a software developer, sometimes I have to work with Windows. That's the breaks. I figured I'd have to reinstall Win98 for this, but decided to try an easier route just in case it worked. I installed the new drive as hdc and booted up Win98 (lilo is my boot loader). Then I ran Windows (DOS?) fdisk to create a 6G hdc1, followed by the obligatory reboot back into Win98. From Windows Explorer I formatted hdc1, including creation of the "system files". Then I turned off virtual memory to get rid of the swap file, incurring another obligatory reboot. After that I used Explorer again to copy everything on hda1 to hdc1, taking care not to overlay the system files that were already there (not sure if that matters). Following all this was a reboot into Linux, creation of my Linux partitions, copying everything over to them, changing /etc/fstab, making a boot diskette, shutting down, re- cabling the new drive as hda, rebooting with the boot diskette, editing lilo.conf, running lilo -- all the usual stuff. Surprise! Windows boots, everything still works. I'm a happy guy this morning. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
