Re: Moving Windows Partition w/linux

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:46:15 -0400

    On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:27:20 -0500, Lyndon Bartels wrote:

    > Here's the story....
    >
    > I have a laptop (Omnibook 4150, P3-500).
    >
    > It started with a 15G harddrive that has Windows 98SE.
    >
    > I wanted to see if I could get linux to work on it.
    >
    > I removed the 15G hard drive and installed an older 6G drive.
    >
    > I installed SuSE 9.1 Pro. Played around and got everything working peachy.
    >
    > I went out an bought a new 40G hard drive and installed it.
    >
    > I partitioned 40G drive with multiple partitions, 1 for windows. 1 for
    > Suse (plus a couple more for swap, hibernation, etc.)
    >
    > My goal, to make the laptop duel boot between Windows 98, and Linux.
    >
    > I bought a external USB case for the 15G drive.
    >
    > I installed SuSE again on it's partition. And I can access the now
    > external USB 15G drive.
    >
    > Question:
    >
    > Is it possible to move the entire Windows installation from the 15G
    > drive, to the partition on the 40G?
    >
    > If so, How?
    >
    > Once that's done, How do I modify GRUB to boot it? Any special tips/tricks.
    >
    >
    > I'm not concerned about sharing data between the two OSes, just want to
    > have both available. I'd rather not re-install Win98 onto it's partition.
    >
    >
    > I've been doing a bunch of googling, and howto-ing but I haven't found
    > much help....
    >
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Lyndon

    You should be able to cp the external drive to the windows partition (I
    assume that they are both FAT32 since you are using Win98). I'm not sure
    what you need to do to get the Windows partition to boot, there might be
    something on the Win98 disk that will "repair" Win98 and install a loader.

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