From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 24.213.60.124.up.mi.chartermi.net ([24.213.60.124] helo=front2.chartermi.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16BNsP-0005Gd-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:17:21 -0500 Received: from [24.196.69.180] (HELO maranatha.chartermi.net) by front2.chartermi.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b2) with ESMTP id 36351393 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:17:23 -0500 Received: from chomiak (helo=localhost) by maranatha.chartermi.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16BIGN-0000Gg-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:17:43 -0600 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:17:43 -0600 (CST) From: Cheryl Homiak To: speakup Subject: Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive In-Reply-To: <20011204145711.B5143@uic.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Format your new drive, and create the ext2 or whatever Linux fs you want. Does creating the file system happen when I initialize athe partitions or is this a separate step that I need to do? Since I am probably going to use the rescue disk for debian potato r2 (speakup enabled) I think this means the system will be ext2 though I would eventually like to go to ext3. Next, mount your new drive to /mnt or whatever mount point you want. Am I trying to mount the whole drive or just the root partition? Since this hard drive is a lot larger than my old one, I was considering putting some directorie on other partitions. Does this just mean I mount the appropriate partition to transfer those directories? With a 20-gig hard drive, I'll have a really big partition if I put the whole system (minus boot and swap and a dos partition) on one partition. Then, prepare a loadlin disk to > boot your new drive. Where should I look for information about doing a loadlin disk? The only way I've ever used loadlin before is on a dos drive to boot into linux. Thanks. Cheryl