Jon Elson wrote: >Dave Houghton wrote: > > >>Hi Jon >>Thanks for looking at it. >>See if I have this right. >>1) The old "stuff" is there.(some of it maybe)&(why do I want it) >>2) It's not worth the effort to make it run.( because it probably wont.) >>3) The old "Stuff" can be accessed and files(some)can be brought to >>Ubuntu8.04./EMC2 >> >>Is that roughly it. >>Because 3 is looking good. It's obviously important not to wreck the new >>Ubuntu8.04/EMC2. >> >>So should we go for 3. Please note the we. >>Can you take me through it one step at a time. >> >> >Depending on how your BDI was set up, you may have already deleted your >old kernel. If it was in a separate boot partition (/dev/sda1) then it >MAy now be gone. or, it may be ditting there in a file. Try this : >ls -al /boot >You will see a few files with the name vmlinuz-2.x.xx......... these >are the Linux kernels - the actual heart of the operating systems. The >string of numbers following the vmlinuz is the OS version number. It >looks like BDI used a 2.6.12 kernel (mine is 2.6.12.6-magma to be precise) >If you don't see any files like that, it means your kernel is either on >the /dev/sda5 partition or just gone. > > Note that Ubuntu creates a boot directory in its root partition and does not mount a separate boot partition by default. It is best to check whether /boot is a separate partition before looking for kernels there, since you're guaranteed to not see any BDI kernels in the Ubuntu root partition. you can check with the command mount. This will print a list of complicated entries, but the thing you're looking for is "/boot" in the "mount point" column.
>If not a Linux guru, I would not recommend trying to muck about in the >grub/menu.lst file to resurrect the BDI OS unless you had a really >strong reason. So, option 3 is probably the best. > >So, open a terminal window and type : > >sudo mkdir /mnt/olddisk >(you may need to give your user password here) >sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/olddisk > >You should now be able to see your old BDI file system with commands like : > >ls /mnt/olddisk/<directory> > >You can copy stuff from old to new with commands like : >cd <new directory> >cp /mnt/olddisk/<some dir>/<some file> . > > Note that once mounted, you will also be able to browse through the directories with the graphical tools. Also, if you put the mount directory under the "/media" directory, the extra mount point will have a shortcut added to the file browsers and dialogs. >Note Linux doesn't actually like spaces in file names, so if any file or >directory names have spaces in them, the whole path has to be enclosed >in quotes. > This isn't quite true. Linux doesn't care a bit about spaces in filenames, and there are several ways to make sure they're not treated as whitespace. One is to enclose the path in quotes. The other is to escape the spaces with backslashes ( \ ). Individual escapes are what you get when you use tab completion. (Tab completion is incredibly useful by the way, recent Ubuntu and other distributions have much better completion, which will give you context-sensitive options for many programs - just hit tab twice when typing a command to see what I mean) The following two file names are the same: /boot/my\ kernels/vmlinuz "/boot/my kernels/vmlinuz" > You can copy entire directories with : > >cp /mnt/olddisk/xyz/* . > >Which will copy all the files in the /xyz directory on the old partition >to the current directory on the new partition. > >There are also utilities like tar that can assemble many files and >directories into one file (called an archive) for, well, archiving. >cp can also be made to copy trees of many directories from one place to >another. > > And of course when you're browsing with a GUI, you can drag/drop, right click, copy/paste ... - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
