Re: They *never* make it easy, do they

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Post #160,935 by deSitter 6/21/04 10:59:38 PM Reply	Re: They never make it easy, do they Yes, I managed to do this on a machine that had an old BIOS, requiring 0->1 sector translation. It had no Windows partition at all, 40g hard disk with /, /usr, and swap. I made /usr part of / and installed sector translation, then used Linux to move over an entire Windows 98 setup from a completely different machine. It was very complex but the end result was seamless Win98/Linux bootage from LILO. (It's hilarious to watch Windows 98 rebuild itself when grafted whole onto another machine. In the end it runs just fine.) -drl
Post #160,937 by drewk 6/21/04 11:03:20 PM Reply	XP is different... the filesystem takes over the whole drive === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #160,939 by deSitter 6/21/04 11:09:36 PM 6/21/04 11:11:53 PM Reply	Not if you graft it on You could even graft it down onto FAT32 from NTFS. It will start in partial safe-mode and start reinstalling low-level devices, and could at some point ask for the CD. So just make an image and come up with a way to unpack the image onto hda1 from Linux. I'll bet it's easier with XP, because the boot process is saner and you can boot from the CD and do a repair. Just make the ERD that XP needs. That'll restore Windows booting, then you start Linux from a bootdisk and re-establish Linux booting with Windows as a secondary boot option. Both my laptops work this way. -drl Edited by deSitter June 21, 2004, 11:11:53 PM EDT Expand All History

So I've given up on VMWare - (drewk) - (23) - June 21, 2004, 08:46:03 PM EDT

You can trick it... - (folkert) - June 21, 2004, 08:50:58 PM EDT

Good man, giving up his toys! -NT - (deSitter) - June 21, 2004, 09:13:54 PM EDT

They *never* make it easy, do they - (drewk) - (16) - June 21, 2004, 10:41:40 PM EDT

Re: They *never* make it easy, do they - (deSitter) - (2) - June 21, 2004, 10:59:38 PM EDT

XP is different... the filesystem takes over the whole drive -NT - (drewk) - (1) - June 21, 2004, 11:03:20 PM EDT

Not if you graft it on - (deSitter) - June 21, 2004, 11:11:53 PM EDT

Not entirely true - (pwhysall) - (12) - June 22, 2004, 01:48:49 AM EDT

And all the stuff I find online says not to do that - (drewk) - (11) - June 22, 2004, 01:50:36 AM EDT

Sure it does. - (pwhysall) - (10) - June 22, 2004, 02:05:48 AM EDT

rofl - (Yendor) - June 22, 2004, 08:58:34 AM EDT

Okay Mr. MCP Man - (drewk) - (8) - June 22, 2004, 08:59:34 AM EDT

IANP... - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 22, 2004, 10:01:09 AM EDT

The swap is something I should only have to do once - (drewk) - June 22, 2004, 10:04:38 AM EDT

More details, sai - and some answers. - (pwhysall) - (5) - June 22, 2004, 01:10:58 PM EDT

How do I launch the installer - (drewk) - (4) - June 22, 2004, 02:21:45 PM EDT

Re: How do I launch the installer - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 22, 2004, 03:34:06 PM EDT

This isn't stupidity, it's willfull ignorance - (drewk) - (2) - June 22, 2004, 03:39:37 PM EDT

Someone who - (Ashton) - June 22, 2004, 10:17:01 PM EDT

Re: This isn't stupidity, it's willfull ignorance - (deSitter) - June 22, 2004, 11:56:17 PM EDT

And now I've just given up - (drewk) - (3) - June 23, 2004, 10:51:50 PM EDT

Whatever you want... - (folkert) - (2) - June 24, 2004, 09:50:05 AM EDT

Yeah, and fries - (drewk) - (1) - June 24, 2004, 11:09:16 AM EDT

Re: Yeah, and fries - (deSitter) - June 24, 2004, 11:34:22 AM EDT

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