[Gslug-general] Linux and XP

[Glenn Stone]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:34:04PM -0700, Donald Gardner wrote:
>does anyone know how to load XP on top of Suse Linux WITHOUT killing my
>linux first. I have linux already loaded (and working) so I don't to
>destroy something that works

Only way to do this that I know of is DISCONNECT the SUSE drive, load XP on
a separate drive (set as slave or on a secondary controller), then reconnect
the SUSE drive and tell GRUB where XP lives.  The XP installer WILL FRY any
boot partitions it sees.  It does not like them, Spam-I-Am.  

Alternate method if you don't like mucking about in hardware is tell SUSE to
clone itself to DVD, then nuke, pave, partition, drop XP, then SUSE over top
off your clone DVD.  This requires some YAST tools whose precise names
escape me (autoyast-somethingorother), but it's easy and really not all that
time-consuming... and then you've got an OS backup into the bargain.  Make
sure /home gets backed up separately and such...

-- Glenn