Re: upgrading windoze partition
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:56:17 -0700
Roy Pluschke <rjplus@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Currently running a dual boot system win98 and sid (lilo is my boot
> manager). I have to update my little used windows partition to
> windows 2000 for a particular program but I am afraid this will cause
> problems with lilo by over-writing something. What's the best way of
> doing this safely and not losing my sid partition?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> R.J.P.
Make a boot floppy (test it to make sure it isn't a dud), install
Winders (make sure it leaves linux partition[s] alone), boot into linux
with the floppy, make any changes you need to lilo.conf (probably none
needed), then run lilo.
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