newbie backup/reinstall/dual boot advice
Please enlighten a fragile newbie. Here's what I have: Suse 9.1 Personal, 2 hard drives, one 30GB (currently the primary) and one 6GB (secondary with pretty much nothing on it). Here what I want to to: Swap out the 6GB with a newly acquired 120GB drive. Install Windows XP ( I swear its only so that my wife can play games!) Without losing current data or having to reinstall all my software. Here's my current plan: Perform system backup using YaST's System Backup, burn this to DVD. (done) Swap out the 6GB with the 120GB. Install Windows XP :P Reinstall Suse Linux with dual-boot enabled. Use YaST's 'Restore system' to get Linux back to where it was? Questions: Will this do what I described above? Is this the right/best way? Or is there a better/easier way? Will I have to re-install all my programs, or will this do the trick? Am I a complete lunatic for trying this? Please be gentle. I'm a lowly newbie who desperately wants to learn the In's and Out's of Linux but am working with very little time to do so at present. T. Daniel
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 22:54, Daniel Sheppeard wrote:
Please enlighten a fragile newbie.
Here's what I have: Suse 9.1 Personal, 2 hard drives, one 30GB (currently the primary) and one 6GB (secondary with pretty much nothing on it).
Here what I want to to: Swap out the 6GB with a newly acquired 120GB drive. Install Windows XP ( I swear its only so that my wife can play games!) Without losing current data or having to reinstall all my software.
Here's my current plan: Perform system backup using YaST's System Backup, burn this to DVD. (done) Swap out the 6GB with the 120GB. Install Windows XP :P Reinstall Suse Linux with dual-boot enabled. Use YaST's 'Restore system' to get Linux back to where it was?
1. Remove the 6GB drive from your linux configuration after backing up any data. You can do this using YaST. 2. Swap out the 6GB with the 120GB drive. Temporarily remove the 30GB drive containing linux and install XP on the 130GB drive. This preserves you linux install. 3. Put the 30GB drive back into the system in the same place as before, if it was connected as the primary master put it back the same way, if it was the secondary master put it there. 4. Boot back into linux, should not be any problems if you restored it in the same ide spot. 5. Add XP into your boot loader, most likely grub. There are good docs for doing this, perhaps someone else on the list can help further with this part. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Thanks for the reply. At the risk of further revealing my own appalling ignorance: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:16:41 -0500, Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
1. Remove the 6GB drive from your linux configuration after backing up any data. You can do this using YaST.
How do I go about this? (Yes, I'm just that clueless) My best guess so far has been with the 'Hardware Information', but when I click on that it brings up a progress window labeled "Probing" which hangs up on 'Braille Display' and then never does anything else. I've found other references within YaST to hard disks, but haven't found anything that gives me any idea how to remove it from the configuration. Aside from this 'little' hangup, everything else looks pretty straightforward to me. Thanks again, T. Daniel
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 02:12, Daniel Sheppeard wrote:
Thanks for the reply. At the risk of further revealing my own appalling ignorance:
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:16:41 -0500, Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
1. Remove the 6GB drive from your linux configuration after backing up any data. You can do this using YaST.
How do I go about this? (Yes, I'm just that clueless) My best guess so far has been with the 'Hardware Information', but when I click on that it brings up a progress window labeled "Probing" which hangs up on 'Braille Display' and then never does anything else.
YaST-->System-->Partitioner
I've found other references within YaST to hard disks, but haven't found anything that gives me any idea how to remove it from the configuration.
Aside from this 'little' hangup, everything else looks pretty straightforward to me.
Thanks again,
T. Daniel
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:54:20 -0600, Daniel Sheppeard <daniel.sheppeard@gmail.com> wrote:
Please enlighten a fragile newbie.
Here's what I have: Suse 9.1 Personal, 2 hard drives, one 30GB (currently the primary) and one 6GB (secondary with pretty much nothing on it).
Here what I want to to: Swap out the 6GB with a newly acquired 120GB drive. Install Windows XP ( I swear its only so that my wife can play games!) Without losing current data or having to reinstall all my software.
Here's my current plan: Perform system backup using YaST's System Backup, burn this to DVD. (done) Swap out the 6GB with the 120GB. Install Windows XP :P Reinstall Suse Linux with dual-boot enabled. Use YaST's 'Restore system' to get Linux back to where it was?
Questions: Will this do what I described above? Is this the right/best way? Or is there a better/easier way? Will I have to re-install all my programs, or will this do the trick? Am I a complete lunatic for trying this?
Please be gentle. I'm a lowly newbie who desperately wants to learn the In's and Out's of Linux but am working with very little time to do so at present.
T. Daniel
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Hi, what I would do: 1. Add the new drive (lets say it is slave on second IDE channel, i.e. hdd) 2. Using YaST/System/Partitioner create on it 3 partitions - 1x20GB - enough to hold WinXP installation; 1x xx, format it as FAT32, so you can use it (if needed) to swap files between XP and SuSE; and the remaining space you can divide as you wish, for use from SuSE. 3. Mount temporary this 3rd partition in SuSE and copy all from your old 6GB drive 4. Using YaST/System/Partitioner remove any mounting information you may have for the 6GB drive. Or you can edit /etc/fstab to remove the corresponding information. 5. Remove your 30GB and 6GB drives, and connect your new drive as master on IDE 0 6. Install XP on the first partition. 7. Connect your 30GB drive as master on IDE 0, and move the 120GB one as whatever you want hdb, hdc, hdd 8. Boot your SuSE. 9. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the following section: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive 10. Save the file and reboot. Now you have to have a a "Windows" entry in your boot menu. Cheers Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
Thanks to all for your help. I've gotten my machine up and running with the dual boot and the new drive. Alas, the version of Windoze I finally installed (2K instead of XP) doesn't seem to run most of the games my wife wanted, but that's hardly the point here, is it? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:03:18 -0600, Sunny <sloncho@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:54:20 -0600, Daniel Sheppeard <daniel.sheppeard@gmail.com> wrote:
Please enlighten a fragile newbie.
Here's what I have: Suse 9.1 Personal, 2 hard drives, one 30GB (currently the primary) and one 6GB (secondary with pretty much nothing on it).
Here what I want to to: Swap out the 6GB with a newly acquired 120GB drive. Install Windows XP ( I swear its only so that my wife can play games!) Without losing current data or having to reinstall all my software.
Here's my current plan: Perform system backup using YaST's System Backup, burn this to DVD. (done) Swap out the 6GB with the 120GB. Install Windows XP :P Reinstall Suse Linux with dual-boot enabled. Use YaST's 'Restore system' to get Linux back to where it was?
Questions: Will this do what I described above? Is this the right/best way? Or is there a better/easier way? Will I have to re-install all my programs, or will this do the trick? Am I a complete lunatic for trying this?
Please be gentle. I'm a lowly newbie who desperately wants to learn the In's and Out's of Linux but am working with very little time to do so at present.
T. Daniel
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Hi,
what I would do:
1. Add the new drive (lets say it is slave on second IDE channel, i.e. hdd) 2. Using YaST/System/Partitioner create on it 3 partitions - 1x20GB - enough to hold WinXP installation; 1x xx, format it as FAT32, so you can use it (if needed) to swap files between XP and SuSE; and the remaining space you can divide as you wish, for use from SuSE. 3. Mount temporary this 3rd partition in SuSE and copy all from your old 6GB drive 4. Using YaST/System/Partitioner remove any mounting information you may have for the 6GB drive. Or you can edit /etc/fstab to remove the corresponding information. 5. Remove your 30GB and 6GB drives, and connect your new drive as master on IDE 0 6. Install XP on the first partition. 7. Connect your 30GB drive as master on IDE 0, and move the 120GB one as whatever you want hdb, hdc, hdd 8. Boot your SuSE. 9. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the following section:
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive
10. Save the file and reboot. Now you have to have a a "Windows" entry in your boot menu.
Cheers Sunny
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