On 5/7/05, RB W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure I follow why these particular partitions are required
It's just simple and fairly safe. hda1 is /boot, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is the root. > but as regards the underlying information you could simply install > clean a new distro on the new drive as /dev/hda and later mount the > old drive as /dev/hdb at mount point /var2. Now you can pick the > important data off the old drive and put it where you want on the new > drive with the new install. I don't have time to install a new distro. I have all the info I need, on a hard disk that's too small. I need to get it on to the other one somehow. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
