Joerg Bartels wrote:
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> When my new hd is say E: with Linux-partitions
> how can I transfer BasicLinux to it
If the drive is your third HDD (master drive on the
secondary IDE cable), then the partitions on it will
be /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2 and so on. If the drive
hasn't already been partitioned, you can use fdisk
in BasicLinux to do this. The Linux partitions
then need to be prepared with mke2fs. For example
'mke2fs /dev/hdc2' will put a Linux filesystem on
the second partition.
> Does it mean booting BasicLinux with boot.bat
> from dos to a RAMdisk, copy BasicLinux to the hd,
So far so good. Tar is the best way to copy an entire
filesytem. Mount the destination HDD on /mnt. From
the / directory, tar up everything except /mnt and
/proc (with the tarball sent to /mnt). Like this:
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tar -cvf /mnt/copy.tar /bin /dev /etc /lib ...
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All of your directories should be in this line
EXCEPT /mnt and /proc.
Now cd to mount and you should find a nice big tarball
there (copy.tar). Before you forget, mkdir proc
(Linux just requires a /proc directory -- it will
automatically put kernel stuff in it). Then:
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tar -xvf copy.tar
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That's it. The entire filesystem has been copied over.
cd out of /mnt umount /mnt reset
> and doing a "reboot" on that
To boot the filesystem on the HDD, use DOS to edit
BOOT.BAT. It should look like this:
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loadlin zimage root=/dev/hdc1 rw
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This assumes you copied BasicLinux to /dev/hdc1.
If you put it on a different partition, change
the c1.
> Most of the software on my CD (Go!Linux), also
> basic stuff, is rpm BasicLinux can not handle that.
> Is there a modul or prog. that can handel it under
> BasicLinux.
Yes, rpm2targz will convert the rpm to a tar.gz.
I'd be happy to send it to you, it's only 2k in
size. It should work fine with BasicLinux, but
I've never used it there, so perhaps I'd better
test it before sending it to you. Send me a
private email if you want it.
Cheers,
Steven
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