will this update strategy work?

[Dino Vliet]

Hi all,

I'm using FreeBSD 4.10 on my toshiba sattelite pro
4600 laptop together with win98. During the past
months I've noticed i'm doing less with win98 and more
and more with FreeBSD (replaced quicken with gnucash
and much more). The only reason I have win98 is
because I never managed to get my internal modem to
work under FreeBSD and sometimes when travelling I
wanted to dial-in to the internet.

The primary (win98) partition is 1.6GB
The secondary (Freebsd 4.10) partition is 6.2GB

Now, I would like to upgrade on the following way.

First, I would like to install FreeBSD 5.3. Release on
the primary partition and remove windows 98
completely. I would then dual boot 5.3 and 4.10.

Then, I would like to mount the secondary partition
(4.10) from 5.3 and move all my personal data to the
5.3 partition. 

After that, I would like to format the secondary
partition (4.10) and give that free space to 5.3.
(someone told me you could do that on the fly in 5.3).
I would like to end up with Freebsd 5.3 beiing the
only OS on my laptop.

I have the following questions.

1) Will this update strategy work?
2) Is the 1.6GB partition big enough for a basic
FreeBSD 5.3 install?

Brgds
Dino Vliet

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