Advise to reinstall XP with Linux - Success

[Jean Sagi]

It was simple indeed with a boot disk the process was:

1. Create boot-disk
2. Install XP
3. Reboot with boot disk and reinstall lilo adding XP


However someone mention that instead of a boot CD a could use a Knoppix 
CD..

Just for learning; How?


Chucho!


James McDonald wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:27:55 -0500, Jean Sagi <jeansagi at uniweb.net.co> 
>> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This might be not very common, but I finaly manged to crash my WindowsME
>>> on the first disk I have (/dev/hda), by resizing the partition where it
>>> reside with Diskdrake.
>>>
>>> Luckyly, all my linux partions where on my second disk (dev/hdb), and I
>>> can boot'em without any problem, so as you may guess the lost was not 
>>> much.
>>>
>>> So, now, I want to install XP in my first disk (yes... I like to play
>>> with the devil), but leaving my linuxes on second disk _intact_ and I'm
>>> not very sure on how to proceed and maybe someone here want to share
>>> some ideas on how to acomplish this.
>>>
>>> I think that:
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I'm assuming from the above:
>>
>> 1. Your first disk is toast, ready to reinstall
>> 2. You can boot the linux on the second disk with CD or floppy
>>
>> Here's what to do:
>>
>> 1. Boot linux and partition the first disk the way you want it. I
>> wouuld recommend enough space for WinXP as ntfs (primary, bootable), a
>> small partition as vfat (primary) to allow transfer of files between
>> linux and WinXP, and the rest (or none) as an extended partition to
>> subdivide however you like. BTW, the WinXP install may format your
>> small vfat partition as ntfs, so you'll need to reformat it as vfat
>> after the fact.
>>  
>>
> If installing of a CD you will prompted for the Partition Format. Just 
> make sure when you install XP you chose the "Format this partition as 
> FAT32" not NTFS you can use NTFS but you will need to recompile your 
> kernel to support NTFS and the new NTFS write code under 2.6.x seems to 
> be an update only sort of code not full write support
> 
>> 2. Install WinXP to the first partition. on the first disk WinXP will
>> not see your linux partitions. After install, only WinXP will be
>> bootable from disk. If this step fails, you're sol from my standpoint.
>> I've never actually installed WinXP.
>>
>> 3. Boot linux and reinstall lilo or grub with the proper stanzas to
>> boot WinXCP and linux. If you need help with this step, ask again.
>>  
>>
> You can use the XP ntldr to boot linux simply run
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/floppy/bootsec.bin bs=512 count=1
> 
> to save the bootsector to floppy
> 
> Note: Before you run dd update lilo conf and remove the winMe stuff and 
> rerun lilo -v
> once XP is installed you simply
> 
> copy a:\bootsec.bin C:\
> 
> edit boot.ini
> 
> to include
> 
> Linux=c:\bootsec.bin
> 
> as an operating system choice
> 
>> 4. All done.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>>  
>>
> I ended up forking out $440 for VMWare and putting my WIndows XP 
> installation into a VM. It's handy to have a windows install available 
> inside linux...
> 
> 
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