On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:00 +0900, sid wrote:
Hi I have Windows Xp prof and Fedora 3 installed on my laptop. I need to reinstall my windows xp cos its showing its native behaviour..like system hang.. Now i read that if I reinstall windows..it will overwrite my current boot loader(GRUB)..and then i will not be able to boot linux. Is there a way to do it without losing my linux installation??
You could try making a boot CD (see the --iso option of mkbootdisk). You'd then be able to boot from that after Windows had wiped out grub from your Master Boot Record. Once back in Linux, you could re-run grub- install to fix it.
Alternatively, you could skip the boot CD step and boot from the Fedora installation CD in rescue mode and run grub-inatall from there.
Also has any one tried to work on Fedora installed on a usb hard drive? how is the performance? I am considering buying a usb hard disk for working on linux on my laptop. thanks in advance..
There's a PDF linked from:
http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
that will show you how to do it. Don't know what the performance will be like though.
Paul.