On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 02:19, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > I just got a IBM thinkpad 600 400 MHZ and I am useing it to > replace my old Thinkpad 770E that is only 333MHZ but has a 20 GB > HDD. > If I understand correctly I should be able to install the old HDD > in the new laptop and do a custom install leaving my home > partitision unformated. but reformat the other partisions. Then the > rest of the install should update the rest of the installation for > the new hardware leaving all of my personal information and files > intact. > Does this sound right ?? > OH yeah it gets more complicated. The HDD is set up to dual boot > with windoze. Will I be able to reinstall windoze without windoze > wipeing out my linux installation or will Windoze try to take > control of the whole disk and wipe out ML9.1 > I am not worried about loosing any data from the windoze > installation. > > TIA > Marc
You should be able to get away with this situation - I did something similar to this just a few ago...(I'm not a Stinkpad fan, but at least they're durable boxen)...the trick would be, however, to do the Windows crap first and foremost - then once that's all happy-dappy, attack the linux installation/upgrade (don't format the /home partition) -- Tue Jul 1 09:35:00 EST 2003 09:35:00 up 6 days, 9:21, 2 users, load average: 1.82, 1.60, 1.62 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * To the landlord belongs the doorknobs.
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