Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

[Timothy Murphy]

Mark Haney wrote:

>> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, but I'd
>> like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. (I'm sure
>> Windows installation will over-write the MBR.)

> A quick google popped this up:
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/8561/cannot-boot-to-fedora-after-installing-windows7/

Thanks for the pointer.
I'll try out what is suggested there.
I think the suggestion is to transfer the whole Fedora DVD to a USB stick.
I only tried transferring a Live CD to the stick,
and this does not offer a Linux Rescue boot option, as far as I could see.

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Timothy Murphy  
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland