Dave Houghton wrote: > > > Hi Jon > Thanks for looking at it. > See if I have this right. > 1) The old "stuff" is there.(some of it maybe)&(why do I want it) > 2) It's not worth the effort to make it run.( because it probably wont.) > 3) The old "Stuff" can be accessed and files(some)can be brought to > Ubuntu8.04./EMC2 > > Is that roughly it. > Because 3 is looking good. It's obviously important not to wreck the new > Ubuntu8.04/EMC2. > > So should we go for 3. Please note the we. > Can you take me through it one step at a time. > Depending on how your BDI was set up, you may have already deleted your old kernel. If it was in a separate boot partition (/dev/sda1) then it MAy now be gone. or, it may be ditting there in a file. Try this : ls -al /boot You will see a few files with the name vmlinuz-2.x.xx......... these are the Linux kernels - the actual heart of the operating systems. The string of numbers following the vmlinuz is the OS version number. It looks like BDI used a 2.6.12 kernel (mine is 2.6.12.6-magma to be precise) If you don't see any files like that, it means your kernel is either on the /dev/sda5 partition or just gone.
If not a Linux guru, I would not recommend trying to muck about in the grub/menu.lst file to resurrect the BDI OS unless you had a really strong reason. So, option 3 is probably the best. So, open a terminal window and type : sudo mkdir /mnt/olddisk (you may need to give your user password here) sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/olddisk You should now be able to see your old BDI file system with commands like : ls /mnt/olddisk/<directory> You can copy stuff from old to new with commands like : cd <new directory> cp /mnt/olddisk/<some dir>/<some file> . Note Linux doesn't actually like spaces in file names, so if any file or directory names have spaces in them, the whole path has to be enclosed in quotes. You can copy entire directories with : cp /mnt/olddisk/xyz/* . Which will copy all the files in the /xyz directory on the old partition to the current directory on the new partition. There are also utilities like tar that can assemble many files and directories into one file (called an archive) for, well, archiving. cp can also be made to copy trees of many directories from one place to another. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
