Re: moving partion to newer drive

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:48 AM 2/25/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Thanks for your response, Ray. I am still not particularly clear about the /boot partition -- what exactly is it used for? I did have an older BIOS on this hard-drive a while ago, and needed the /boot partition then to dual boot. Now, if my BI

Re: moving partion to newer drive

2004-02-24 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Thanks for your response, Ray. I am still not particularly clear about the /boot partition -- what exactly is it used for? I did have an older BIOS on this hard-drive a while ago, and needed the /boot partition then to dual boot. Now, if my BIOS can "see" all of /dev/hdb then its not necessary for

Re: moving partion to newer drive

2004-02-24 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Olszewski wrote: | At 08:25 PM 2/24/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: | |>Hello, |> |>I have a dual-boot system (with windows-98 and redhat 7.3) setup on an old |>hard disk. I recently obtained a new hard drive and have their order |>configured

Re: moving partion to newer drive

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:25 PM 2/24/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Hello, I have a dual-boot system (with windows-98 and redhat 7.3) setup on an old hard disk. I recently obtained a new hard drive and have their order configured such that the old drive is /dev/hda and the new one is /dev/hdb. The partitions o

moving partion to newer drive

2004-02-24 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hello, I have a dual-boot system (with windows-98 and redhat 7.3) setup on an old hard disk. I recently obtained a new hard drive and have their order configured such that the old drive is /dev/hda and the new one is /dev/hdb. The partitions on /dev/hda are as follows: /dev/hda1 * 1