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from 7.1 to W2K and 7.2
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Hi,
Stating the obvious of course ,but to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 you need the 7.2 CDs. If you don't have them you can either download the iso images and burn CDs from them (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.2-en/iso/i386/) or mirror the entire directory tree under ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/ and copy to CD plus make a boot floppy of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img using the rawrite.exe file in the dosutils directory.
You probably knew that anyway....
OK, the next bit depends on your existing partitioning. If you have 7.1 across the whole 20gb drive then you'd need to free some space for W2K to fit in. There are details of a few resizing utilities here --> . I think W2K is fairly flexible on the type of partition you can install in (unlike win 9x) and I'd suggest you first install W2k before trying the 7.2 upgrade. Its also probably best to create an ntfs (or fat32) partition for W2K yourself from the linux side so that you can be sure where it is on the drive. One of the 'problems' with M$ is that it uses logical drive letters such that, although predictable, you can sometimes forget that its going to use a drive letter for an unformatted partition, etc. Hence, when it says, for example, 'D:\' are you 100% certain what it really means in /dev/hdxx terms! If you partition yourself first and don't leave any unallocated space you can be much more confident what its doing and which partition its chosen.
So, you (i) free some space and preferably create an nfts partition (ii) install W2K in that partition - I wouldn't worry that it takes the MBR because next you'll (iii) Do the 7.2 upgrade from CD and make sure that you create a boot floppy as I'm not certain that an upgrade will offer to re-install the boot loader in the MBR. If it does, take the option to install grub or lilo in /dev/hda (MBR). If not (iv) boot from floppy and edit the grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf files to use the MBR then re-write the binary boot record.
See also -->
You might also like to make a bootable floppy for your existing 7.1 just in case of problems if you don't have one :
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.16-22
or
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.2-2
(or whatever else you kernel version is - as reported by 'uname -r')
Hope this helps
Stating the obvious of course ,but to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 you need the 7.2 CDs. If you don't have them you can either download the iso images and burn CDs from them (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.2-en/iso/i386/) or mirror the entire directory tree under ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/ and copy to CD plus make a boot floppy of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img using the rawrite.exe file in the dosutils directory.
You probably knew that anyway....
OK, the next bit depends on your existing partitioning. If you have 7.1 across the whole 20gb drive then you'd need to free some space for W2K to fit in. There are details of a few resizing utilities here --> . I think W2K is fairly flexible on the type of partition you can install in (unlike win 9x) and I'd suggest you first install W2k before trying the 7.2 upgrade. Its also probably best to create an ntfs (or fat32) partition for W2K yourself from the linux side so that you can be sure where it is on the drive. One of the 'problems' with M$ is that it uses logical drive letters such that, although predictable, you can sometimes forget that its going to use a drive letter for an unformatted partition, etc. Hence, when it says, for example, 'D:\' are you 100% certain what it really means in /dev/hdxx terms! If you partition yourself first and don't leave any unallocated space you can be much more confident what its doing and which partition its chosen.
So, you (i) free some space and preferably create an nfts partition (ii) install W2K in that partition - I wouldn't worry that it takes the MBR because next you'll (iii) Do the 7.2 upgrade from CD and make sure that you create a boot floppy as I'm not certain that an upgrade will offer to re-install the boot loader in the MBR. If it does, take the option to install grub or lilo in /dev/hda (MBR). If not (iv) boot from floppy and edit the grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf files to use the MBR then re-write the binary boot record.
See also -->
You might also like to make a bootable floppy for your existing 7.1 just in case of problems if you don't have one :
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.16-22
or
/sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.2-2
(or whatever else you kernel version is - as reported by 'uname -r')
Hope this helps
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