question about upgrading to Fedora

[Jim Ruxton]

Thanks a lot Fred and Mel. I'll go ahead and bring my Dinosaur up to speed.

Jim

>On May 4, 2004 03:51 pm, Mel Seder wrote:
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>>I'm not an expert at all,  but if I recall correctly Fedora will ask you if
>>you want to use existing linux partitions or to delete and use all partions
>>on the drive(s).  Can anyone verify that this is correct?
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>Yes, this will happen.  Actually, just yesterday we upgraded a comp
>from redhat7.3 (dual boot with win2000) to fedora core 1.  No problems.
>Kept the windows partition.  Grub had a slight misconfiguration so it
>required so we just reran the grub installer again and everything
>worked fine.
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>>--- Jim Ruxton <cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I'm currently dual booting XP with RH7.2 . I want to upgrade to Fedora
>>>but don't want to lose my XP partition. I'm booting using Boot Magic
>>>then loading Linux with Grub. If I boot off the first Fedora CD  will it
>>>know I have an XP partition and leave it alone? I am  going to back up
>>>my Linux home directory and do a complete install. I think it would be
>>>difficult to just upgrade from 7.2 to Fedora. I assume Fedora will write
>>>over my previous files. So I guess my only question now is how Fedora
>>>will deal with the XP partition.
>>>Thanks
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