[gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

Hello list! I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points: * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly (emerge --update package), or use --deep against world (emer

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

> > To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that; > > 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to > > setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward. > > This is correct if you only have primary partitions. It will not copy the > ext

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Monday 16 May 2011 02:47:31 Dale wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale > > > > wrote: > > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= > > flag, I simply append "single"

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Monday 16 May 2011 02:01:13 Adam Carter wrote: > WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just > stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal > to whatever bs has been specified as. I recall zeroing drives/partitions and getting this mes

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot "kernel-2.6.3

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (part solved)

On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: The errors from NFS are different than I originally encountered, and indicate that neither portmap nor rpcbind are running. Which of the two did nfs-utils actually install (or both?), and what exactly is its name I need to use with rc-update o

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On 2011/05/14 09:20 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: My #1 problem to solve is NFS not working yet (nfs-utils aka libevent, portmap, rpc emerge failures), but it would also be very nice to get Grub to emerge. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ Now as noted in the econf failed thread I've s

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Success!!!

On 2011/05/16 11:25 (GMT+1000) Adam Carter composed: Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source /etc/profile&& env-update`. AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years on two different systems. The OP's probably appears to be that he

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 09:43 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs >> from >> my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale > wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle > plan. > > Among the 8 attempts, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 09:25 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source > /etc/profile && env-update`. > > > AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years > on two different systems. > > The OP's probably appears to b

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply >> append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user >> (root password or ctrl+d to continue). >> >> > I did get this to work:

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs > > from > > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

> Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source > /etc/profile && env-update`. > > AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years on two different systems. The OP's probably appears to be that he has ccache in FEATURES but its not installedas Mic

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle > plan. > > Among the 8 attempts, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal to whatever bs has been specified as. I think the re-read of the partition table is probably the problem - so thanks for that suggestion. To check m

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Indi wrote: > Anyone here have leafnode running successfully? > I seem to be stuck, and for some reason google appears to be stuck as > well on this one. Apparently users who want leafnode are about as rare > as hen's teeth... > > 11/5/15@10:24:49: ERROR: 3486

[gentoo-user] Re: chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On 05/14/2011 06:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > My #1 problem to solve is NFS not working yet (nfs-utils aka > libevent, portmap, rpc emerge failures), but it would also be very > nice to get Grub to emerge. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ Looking at the config for libevent, the script can't

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue). I did get this to work: title Gentoo single user kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle plan. Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507 portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

Remy Blank wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Here is eselect python list > > [1] python2.7 * > > [2] python3.2 > > > > I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf. > > Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

Remy Blank: > FWIW, docutils emerges fine here, but I do have a UTF-8 locale. Just for curiosity i have now tested. Normally i am using docutils-0.7. No problems with emerging docutils-0.8_pre7034. hafi@i5 ~ $ eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.4 [2] python2.

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On Sun, 15 May 2011 21:53:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown > > are changes. > > I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not > ask myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

Remy Blank wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Here is eselect python list > > [1] python2.7 * > > [2] python3.2 > > > > I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf. > > Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Here is eselect python list > [1] python2.7 * > [2] python3.2 > > I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf. Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366879 (Look at the duplicates for the sy

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:53:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick > did > > opine thusly: > > On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

Remy Blank wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > I am using python2.7. > > No, you're not. > > > * Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function > ^^^ > > Check what "eselect python list" shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set > to

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last > > > KDE upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag c

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

Apparently, though unproven, at 20:43 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: > > I don't recall having this issue with KDE3 so maybe it is something they > > are working on. I did notice the other day that I had only a couple > > after the openrc upgrade. I don't know if one has anything

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:40:30 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: > > > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; > > > > > > > > On the old 66GB disk; > >

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I am using python2.7. No, you're not. > * Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function ^^^ Check what "eselect python list" shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set to in make.conf. -- Remy signature.asc

[gentoo-user] docutils will not emerge

27; * environment, line 3422: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "${failure_message}"; * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034', * the complete build log and the output of 'em

[gentoo-user] Re: grub menu and the new openrc

On 05/15/2011 01:34 PM, Dale wrote: Hi, I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any more. This is my current settings: No nee

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:14:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last > > > KDE upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes > > > (scanner, rdesktop and vnc I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:19:38 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I've noticed this problem twice so far: > >PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > > > > 14928 michael 21 1 340m 22m 15m R 100 0.6 2:24.84 kdeinit4: > > kded4 [kdeinit] > > 14658 michael 21

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: > > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; > > > > > > On the old 66GB disk; > > > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

Mick wrote: I've noticed this problem twice so far: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 14928 michael 21 1 340m 22m 15m R 100 0.6 2:24.84 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit] 14658 michael 21 1 980m 35m 24m R 100 0.9 2:24.83 /usr/bin/knotify4 On both

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; > > > > On the old 66GB disk; > > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 > > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz > > > > Then a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue). May try that next. I don't need this right now but I do want to figure this out

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last > > KDE upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes > > (scanner, rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages > > and libraries. O

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sun, 15 May 2011 16:36:10 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single > >> user mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. > > I do not know about the particular video dr

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; > > On the old 66GB disk; > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz > > Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk; > dd if=/root/winmbr.b

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Apparently, though unproven, at 15:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > > > Why not rebuil

[gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

I've noticed this problem twice so far: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 14928 michael 21 1 340m 22m 15m R 100 0.6 2:24.84 kdein

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue). On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:34, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot t

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sunday 15 May 2011 16:39:19 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I > >> just select single use

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Mick wrote: On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote: Hi, I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any more. This is m

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. I do not know about the particular video

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I > just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any > more. This is my curre

[gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

Anyone here have leafnode running successfully? I seem to be stuck, and for some reason google appears to be stuck as well on this one. Apparently users who want leafnode are about as rare as hen's teeth... Output of xinetd -d follows: idd@gh:[~]$ xinetd -d 11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

On 2011-05-15 14:59, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Indeed. And sometimes top-posting is *forced* (e.g., Google's >Java-based Gmail client -- it *totally* hides the replied-to message). > > Heck, using my E72's built-in mail client is only slightly better: >for reasons known to the makers only, replies do

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

Joost Roeleveld writes: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: >> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB? > > Did you reboot after the first "dd"? Probably, undless he is using som external drive. > Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 15.05.2011 05:37, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Am 14.05.2011 21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello list! Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler) using Gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. But that doesn't fix the problem I pos

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To? From: pk Date: 2011-05-15 17:47 On 2011-05-15 12:05, Florian Philipp wrote: > BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are > quoting. That makes reading longer threads easier. Yeah, s

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

On Sunday 15 May 2011 09:43:39 Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote: > Following the openrc update in gentoo amd64, all locale variables suddenly > vanished. I created a /etc/env.d/02locale file which includes > LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8". lyx loads with english menus. It's only after > exporting LANG from .bashrc that

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has my build.log, config.log and > eclass-debug.log files from 6 different emerge failures, plus output of > emerge --info. Is there something akin to a Handbook page that describes > similar failu

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70% > non-English pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without > answers (from forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers > specific to packages bearing no appare

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > mode and rebuild my video drivers. Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. -- Neil Bothwick Where do you think you're going today? signature.a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

On 2011-05-15 12:05, Florian Philipp wrote: > BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are > quoting. That makes reading longer threads easier. Yes, but putting the text below the quoted text also assumes one keeps only the relevant text (i.e. deletes all irrelevant text),

[gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

Hi, I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any more. This is my current settings: title Gentoo kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-

Re: [gentoo-user] One-time boot from alternate kernel?

On Sat, 14 May 2011 23:46:52 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Is it possible to pass a to do a one-time reboot to other than the > default kernel? Yes. Or were you asking How? Use grub-set-default, it's covered in the grub man/info pages AFAIR, I haven't used it for some time. -- Neil Bothwic

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

Am 15.05.2011 05:37, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 14.05.2011 21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >>> Hello list! >>> >>> Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler) >>> using Gentoo? >>> >>> I really don't need many things OpenFiler provide

[gentoo-user] Troubleshooting the Virtualbox init script

Hey list, I noticed a little while ago that virtualbox-bin came with an init script and decided to try it out. Trouble is, the script starts a virtualbox VM just fine, it just can't stop one. Check out /etc/conf.d/virtualbox.my-vm: # Username to start vbox as, must be part of vboxusers group.

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote: > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; > > On the old 66GB disk; > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz > > Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk; > dd if=/root/winmbr.b

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

On Sunday 15 May 2011 07:24:12 Felix Miata wrote: > Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70% non-English > pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without answers (from > forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers specific to packages > bearing no apparent relation

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

- Mail Original - De: "Mick" À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Envoyé: Samedi 14 Mai 2011 21h05:57 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone On Saturday 14 May 2011 15:26:38 Florian Philipp wrote: >

[gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; On the old 66GB disk; # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk; dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=