Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion
Tom Moyer wrote: >I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would >ask if any one had any ideas. > >I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: >hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig >hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig >hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig > >I got Windows running in qemu and no longer have a use for my Windows >installation on hda and would like to be able to make the setup like >the following: >hda - Gentoo - 120 Gig >hdb - Gentoo - 40 Gig (holding /home) >hdc - Gentoo - 30 Gig (holding qemu .img file for Windows) > >what would be the easiest way to do this without killing gentoo? > > Do you have a /boot partition, and if so, is it on (current) hda or hdb? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion
Tom Moyer wrote: I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would ask if any one had any ideas. I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig I got Windows running in qemu and no longer have a use for my Windows installation on hda and would like to be able to make the setup like the following: hda - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 40 Gig (holding /home) hdc - Gentoo - 30 Gig (holding qemu .img file for Windows) what would be the easiest way to do this without killing gentoo? I know I would have to edit /etc/fstab, but I'm not sure how to go about changing my Grub setup to handle the new drive setup. Thanks, Tom More info might get better answers than mine... Where is grub installed? Is there something else on ide1 with the possibly dead 30G? The 30G *is* on ide1, end/master connection, right? Why doo you thing the 30G is dead. What kind of Internet connection do you have? Trying without those, and assuming a certain amount of knowledge on your part from where you're at right now... Go into linux, start grub (the program), make an install floppydisk, shut computer off, swap hda & hdb, insert grub boot floppy, turn computer on & go to bios setup and insure that floppy is set to boot before hda, and install grub to MBR (or /boot) of new 120G hda. If want /boot, be sure to do fdisk or (my favorite for this) cfdisk & write down where your /boot ( or / ) is before above. Of course, read & maybe even print (horror-of-horrors...) the man-grub or grub docos or whatever before starting above. It might even, after reading grub data, to simply install grub to mbr/boot of hdb from current setup. (?) best, rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion
Tom Moyer wrote: I got Windows running in qemu and no longer have a use for my Windows installation on hda and would like to be able to make the setup like the following: hda - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 40 Gig (holding /home) hdc - Gentoo - 30 Gig (holding qemu .img file for Windows) what would be the easiest way to do this without killing gentoo? I know I would have to edit /etc/fstab, but I'm not sure how to go about changing my Grub setup to handle the new drive setup. The easiest method might be to shutdown the machine. Attach your drives so that the Gentoo drives are on separate channels and the right device names, assuming they aren't already. Then boot the LiveCD. Make sure that the 120 drive is hda and so forth. Mount /dev/hda and edit the fstab on it to reflect the new setup. Reinstall grub or lilo and run the setup again so that you are sure your boot loader is installed and in the right place. Edit your grub.conf or lilo.conf as needed to make sure your kernel will get booted from the right partition. That should be pretty much it. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion
I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would ask if any one had any ideas. I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig I got Windows running in qemu and no longer have a use for my Windows installation on hda and would like to be able to make the setup like the following: hda - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 40 Gig (holding /home) hdc - Gentoo - 30 Gig (holding qemu .img file for Windows) what would be the easiest way to do this without killing gentoo? I know I would have to edit /etc/fstab, but I'm not sure how to go about changing my Grub setup to handle the new drive setup. Thanks, Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
