[ltp] Installing XP from recovery discs?

[James Knott]

Peter Lemken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after receiving the full 8 CD set of recovery disks from IBM I wiped my R51's 
> harddrive clean and partitioned it for exclusive Linux use. 
> 
> Now I need to have Windows installed and from reading the documentation I 
> could not find a way to simply install XP Professional without losing my 
> Linux partitions. What I saw was that you could either restore the original 
> state of the HD from CD, losing all other partitions or start the rescue and 
> recovery process from disk and have windows installed on C:\ without losing 
> other partitions.
> 
> Since I do not have anything left on the HD except Linux, the last option 
> obviously doesn't work, does it? What other suggestions do you have to get XP 
> Pro onto the HD other than buying a new copy?

When I reinstalled XP on my R31, the installation from CD didn't affect
my Linux partitions at all.  I only had to re-enable GRUB.  However, as
always, backup the important stuff.