Hi folks, I baought a new 20 gig drive and want to slap it into my dual boot system and move the older drives to some older system. The new drive will be set up as 1st partion /boot (for linux) aprx 10 meg space 2nd partion Main Windows partion about 10 gig 3rd partion / (main linux partion just under 10 meg) 4th parion /swap (how big should swap be for a P350 with 256 meg ram) The dual boot has two hard drives. The first one is all windows /dev/hda and the second one is all linux. I wnat to move ALL the contents of the windows drive to the second partion on the new drive. The second one is all linux and I can Zap the whole drive as I want to load up 7.o on the new drive. So haow can thie be done without partionmagic and drive copy ? I was thinking of first removing both drives , install the new one install linux (create all four partions format and isntall Suse 7.0 then after that boots and runs , go back and install the old windows only drive and some how copy ALL of the contents to the second partion on the new drive. I would assume that I 1/ need to mount the old windows drive ie mount /dev/hdb1 -t ????? /olddrive can this be mounted as readonly so that I dont trash the system by mistake ? 2/ mount the new drive ie mount /dev/hda2 /newdrive 3/ copy cp right?) every thing from /olddrive to the new drive cp -r * /newdrive ?or something 4/ now do I need to wory baout reinstalling windoews and lilo so as to be able to dual boot ? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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