I'm expecting my pre-ordered disks any day now, and, in the light of problems others have had with hardware no longer working, at least out of the box, I have to make decisions. At the same time, I feel that I have a HDD catastrophe waiting to happen.
Currently I have two 20Gb disks and a 4Gb installed. You can guess how old that one is (it has my /home on it), but the others are not so young either. I think the best solution for the moment is to keep win98 (I still have a couple of essential apps there), keep Mdk 8.2 and install Mdk 9.0 as well. It would not, I think, be sensible to put in a fourth disk, so I'm wondering whether to put the lot onto 1 large disk, or split the os's - perhaps win98 on a separate one? Any pros and cons? If I back up /etc /home /root and /var can I take it that I could find and restore any settings (including my mailboxes) that I may need? I presume that if I do this it would still be wise to install win98 first. Are there any problems about installing the two versions of Mdk after that? I know some of you do have more than one. Finally, if and when I get Mdk 9.0 as I want it, is it straightforward to get rid of 8.2 without risk to win98 and 9.0? I would guess that it is simply a matter of reformatting that partition and then re-running lilo. Am I right? Any more thoughts? Anne
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