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from: Joe Barr
date: 2002-12-20 08:44:22
subject: Re: Dual-booting Redhat and XP

From: "Joe Barr" 


I remember reading in one forum or another than XP simply erased all non-MS
partitions.  I don't know if that's true or not, though, but be careful.






On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:46:19 +0000, Gregg Nemesure wrote:

> Anyone who can help,
>
> I currently have a system with both Windows 98SE and Redhat 8.0 installed
> with grub used to boot. I would like to upgrade the Windows part to XP,
> but I am not sure what effect this will have on the Linux partitions and
> grub MBR.
>
> This might be complicated by the fact that the Linux partitions are
> distributed between two disks on two IDE controllers. I think the boot and
> swap partitions are on the second hard disk and the others are on the
> first. Windows 98SE is on the first. There is a shared FAT32 partition on
> the second as well.
>
> How should I proceed? Thanks.
>
> --
> Gregg

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