hi,

i'm not sure whether i got the idea presented by al, but i think it points
in a little bit different place than i want it to... i guess it will work
when both drives are in the computer case, together... well it's not
possible to do it with this computer

so i should probably better describe what i want to do.

i won't do the harddrive work - it's gonna be one of guys from our
department... he will take the old drive from the computer and somehow
copies all the existing partitions to a new (bigger) drive, and the space
that will remain on the new drive will be used for creation of a new windoze
partition... and put the bigger disk back to the original workstation case.
as he doesn't worj with unix he'll do it somehow with windoze
applications...

on such a new system, is it possible to boot somehow (for example using the
floppy or cdrom) to unix and "restore" the old netbsd partitions on a new
drive, and set up mbr and bootloader? or is it better to reinstall the whole
system from scratch?

probably an extension of the question... if you reinstall windoze on such a
machine and it somehow "destroys" the mbr (i.e. unix is no more accessible
via normal boot), is it possible (and how to do) to restore the mbr to work
as a dualboot again?

regards,
lubos

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Lubos Vrbka
National Centre for Biomolecular Research
Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

shnek@chemi.muni.cz
http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
tel. +420 541 129 508
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