Perhaps this would be helpful:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:20:43PM -0700, David Bishop wrote:
So, I trying to convert a machine that has been dual-booting NT and Debian
for awhile, mainly because I just noticed that I haven't
I will explain it my way , got a bit confused with your explination ..
You have one hard drive lets say 10 GIG. 4 Gig for NT , 2 GIG for var .. and
what ever
If you don't want any data from the NT drive , do the following
Unmout the NT partition , so when you type in " mount " at the bash , it
Hrrm, I'll try to explain a bit better this time :-)
I currently have a hard drive laid out like this:
hda1 = NTFS 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 / 2Gigs
hda5 = swap 128 Megs
hda6 = ext2 /home 2 Gigs
and I want to end up with:
hda1 = ext2 / 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 /home 4Gigs
hda3 = swap 128 megs
So my idea
On 2 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote:
hda1 = NTFS 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 / 2Gigs
hda5 = swap 128 Megs
hda6 = ext2 /home 2 Gigs
and I want to end up with:
hda1 = ext2 / 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 /home 4Gigs
hda3 = swap 128 megs
So my idea was, blow away the ntfs partition, and transfer everything
I will explain it my way , got a bit confused with your explination ..
You have one hard drive lets say 10 GIG. 4 Gig for NT , 2 GIG for var .. and
what ever
If you don't want any data from the NT drive , do the following
Unmout the NT partition , so when you type in mount at the bash , it
Hrrm, I'll try to explain a bit better this time :-)
I currently have a hard drive laid out like this:
hda1 = NTFS 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 / 2Gigs
hda5 = swap 128 Megs
hda6 = ext2 /home 2 Gigs
and I want to end up with:
hda1 = ext2 / 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 /home 4Gigs
hda3 = swap 128 megs
So my idea
On 2 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote:
hda1 = NTFS 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 / 2Gigs
hda5 = swap 128 Megs
hda6 = ext2 /home 2 Gigs
and I want to end up with:
hda1 = ext2 / 4Gigs
hda2 = ext2 /home 4Gigs
hda3 = swap 128 megs
So my idea was, blow away the ntfs partition, and transfer everything
"David Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First, I don't know of a safe way to transfer all of those files. I've tried
to use tar in the past, but had permision issues (things ended up being owned
by root). I could use dd, but that's a block-by-block transfer, right? So
I usually use cp
David Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First, I don't know of a safe way to transfer all of those files. I've tried
to use tar in the past, but had permision issues (things ended up being owned
by root). I could use dd, but that's a block-by-block transfer, right? So
I usually use cp -ax
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