On Saturday 15 June 2002 10:58 am, twopinkblobs@t-online.de wrote:
like to dump windows completely and then have 7.3 as hda and the windows drive as a backup etc. as hdb.
Anders knows { i do not } ~ maybe, unmount /dev/hda, then, make a small 50 mb partition /dev/hda1 for /boot ~ next, format the /boot part. with mke2fs -c /dev/hda1 , next format the rest of the hda with reiser file system. then, mount /dev/hda2 then cd to / on /dev/hdb and clone your SuSE to /mnt using <tar> like this :- tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) ....................................... final 2 steps : edit {maybe with editor <joe> which for me is easier} /etc/fstab [to reflect new, situation, and, edit /etc/lilo.conf lastly , rename /boot as /old_boot , mount /dev/hda1 /boot , copy old_boot to boot and, run <lilo> -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________