[nmglug] Help with transition from Windoze 98 to Linux

[Bill York]

don't think you'll want to boot to the 98 drive, just slave it and
copy what you need. Linux should have no problems with a FAT or FAT32
partition.

i would mount your slaved drive as RO to protect anything you want to
keep before you get it safely transferred to a good OS.

Bill
mcse

On 11/8/06, Lee Einer <Lee at dosmanosjewelry.com> wrote:
> I have a friend with an antiquated Windoze 98 box. I donated to him a
> Linux PC, and got it up and running for him yesterday.
>
> The problem is, he did not get the stuff off the Windows box which he
> wanted to keep. The Windows box only has a floppy drive, no cd burner,
> so moving this crap from one box to the other the normal way will be way
> tedious.
>
> If I pull the hard drive from the windows box, jumper it as a slave and
> put it in the Linux box as a second hard drive, will Grub recognize it
> and allow the option to boot from the Windows drive? Or does Grub just
> look at the primary hard drive?
>
> Lee
>
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