Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Others deal with the upgrade issue. Just to add my 2p worth - You wouldn't try to upgrade, would you? Most people have found that dodgy. A clean install is to be preferred. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
And tar does do volumes. On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:01, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: I haven't had any troubles installing Mandrake on a disk with an existing Windows 2000 NTFS partition. It was very clean. Obviously, you want to take your time and be very careful. On a side note, I would never have tried it even once without my important data backed up. I'd seriously think about finding some way to save that data. You say you have no way of backing up that much data right after you say that you can't afford to lose it. Can you afford 30 bucks and some time for a burner and a stack of cds? A second HD wouldn't be too much, and you'd have some quick and easy insurance. And a tape backup unit would be even better, but they're pretty pricey. So it's like the mechanic said, Good, Fast, Cheap - Pick two. On a side note to a side note, I know some people are right now have figured that it would take about 80 650MB CDs to do this, and then figuring out that how much time that would take. But that answer doesn't mean anything until it's compared to the time of recreating that 50GB worth of data from scratch. Anyway, hope it goes well for you. .02 ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Mitchell Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data - Mark Keith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be able to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO? - Mark Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Others deal with the upgrade issue. Just to add my 2p worth - You wouldn't try to upgrade, would you? Most people have found that dodgy. A clean install is to be preferred. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Before you do anything I would go ahead and use Symantec Ghost 2003 and back up the windows 2000 partition. You might be able to back up the Mandrake 8.0 with Ghost 2003 read the documentation Kenneth E. Spress[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because,you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketersrequesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept mysincerest apologies and reply with "remove" in the subject field.I will remove your name immediately!==Listen to us every Sunday at 11:00 am EST at:http://www.alternacast.comEZHelp, You More Show Infohttp://learn.at/ezhelphttp://go.to/ezhelpAIM: keniswhoiamYahoo: kspressMSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 19870108You Finally Have A Choice In Local Telephone Service Ask Me How.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Mark Mitchell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be able to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO?- MarkAnne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Others deal with the upgrade issue. Just to add my 2p worth - You wouldn't try to upgrade, would you? Most people have found that dodgy. A clean install is to be preferred. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Don't see why not. I used to have W2K and Mdk 8.2 on this box and could boot to either from lilo. Anne On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:11 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be able to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO? - Mark Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Others deal with the upgrade issue. Just to add my 2p worth - You wouldn't try to upgrade, would you? Most people have found that dodgy. A clean install is to be preferred. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
It's your choice, either remove lilo with the dos switch in which case your left with w2k's own boot loader or leave lilo in place (it sits in the mbr) either way when you come to install mandrake a new lilo will be written. John Mark Mitchell wrote: If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be able to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO? - Mark Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Others deal with the upgrade issue. Just to add my 2p worth - You wouldn't try to upgrade, would you? Most people have found that dodgy. A clean install is to be preferred. Anne -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Buy back up to another HDD..They are CHEAP now adays... On Thursday 02 January 2003 09:59 pm, you wrote: Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data - Mark Keith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark back up is not something you do once before you screw with things, like saving documents you are working on, it is something to be done often. that said you will not have any problem with the M$ partitions as long as you do an expert install and do not screw with any fat or ntfs partitions. I boot, WinME (hda1), MDK 7.0 to 9.0 (clean installs across 2 harddrives,hda5 for /home, hda6 for/, hda7 for swap, and hdc5 fat data, hdc6 for /var) and hda8 has Win2k. lilo sees the win2k bootloader as windows and then I choose either win2k or winMe. never a problem since Lilo overcame the 1024 cyl limit. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Title: Message I have done this several times without any problem. Adolfo -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark MitchellSent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:11 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot UpgradeIf I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be able to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO?- MarkAnne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Others deal with the upgrade issue. Just to add my 2p worth - You wouldn't try to upgrade, would you? Most people have found that dodgy. A clean install is to be preferred. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Keith wrote: Buy back up to another HDD..They are CHEAP now adays... On Thursday 02 January 2003 09:59 pm, you wrote: Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data - Mark Keith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders Yes! Personally, I generally use a dual boot drive. When I want to try something -- update/upgrade, or anything risky -- I first clone the drive and try the update, etc. on that. If anything goes wrong I still have the original drive. DriveCopy, or one of the other cloners, makes a great backup. Bob On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data - Mark Keith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark
RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
I haven't had any troublesinstalling Mandrake on a disk with an existingWindows 2000 NTFS partition. It wasvery clean.Obviously, you want to take your time and be very careful. On a side note, Iwould never have tried it even once without my important data backed up. I'dseriously think about finding some way to save that data.You say you have no way of backing up that much data right after you say that you can't afford to lose it. Can you afford 30 bucks and some timefor a burner and a stack of cds?A second HD wouldn't be too much, and you'd have some quick and easy insurance. And a tape backup unit would be even better, but they'repretty pricey. So it's like the mechanic said, "Good, Fast, Cheap -Pick two." On a side note to a side note, I know some people are right now have figured that it would take about80 650MB CDs to do this, and then figuring out that how much time that would take. Butthat answerdoesn't mean anything until it's comparedto the time of recreating that 50GB worth of data from scratch. Anyway, hope it goes well for you. .02 ~Brandon -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark MitchellSent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data- MarkKeith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark
