Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 21:06, dwain wrote:
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> I am replacing a 13GB drive and a 4GB drive with 2 40GB 7200rpm drives.
> I had intended to use a 2GB drive that I have for the swap drive. 

The 2 GB is probably very slow comparing to 40 GB, so just don't use it. 

> The 
> reason I'm using 40GB drives is that that's all the drive my BIOS on
> this old machine will handle.  Besides, I don't need a larger drive than
> 40GB.

 :-)  
Wait a while and you'll see. 
I have 2x80 and external 120 on this machine and it is not too much. 

Have you tried a bigger drive. 
BIOS is relevant only for the first moments of booting, and for placement of 
boot partition. 

...
> Glad to know this, I guess that a select all and move/copy to the new
> drive is all that is needed?

It should work like that if you install 40 GB as /dev/hdb, boot in live CD. 
If not than don't copy /proc and /sys, just create empty directories on target 
partition. I'm wondering what would do 
 dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
if you use it from some Live CD like:
 http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ;
and then just put 40 GB as /dev/hda.
I haven't tried that, but it should make perfect copy of 13 GB disk. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal ;
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