Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>
> I Have a dual boot win98/Mandrake7.2 system that's installed on a 17G IDE hard-disk.
>I just bought two 9G SCSI hard-disks. I plan to install the windows from scratch, and
>transfer the Linux partitions with tar, edit '/etc/fstab' reinstall LILO (with
>initrd) and hope for the best. does anybody have any suggestions or think of
>something that I've missed?
To get the copied Linux partition bootable again you will need to be
operating from another Linux installation, which you can achieve by
using the old one, or by installing one on another partition or by
using a floppy-based version on Linux, such as Tom Oehser's tomsrtbt
(download his 205 version from http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html).
>From this running Linux you, as the superuser, can then mount the
copied Linux partition and directly edit the /etc/fstab and
/etc/lilo.conf of the moved Linux partition to correct the devices by
using chroot and your favourite command line text editor (pico, joe,
emacs, etc.), then make a new floppy boot disc, viz:
su
mount .....
chroot <mount point> pico /etc/fstab
chroot <mount point> pico /etc/lilo.conf
chroot <mount point> uname -r # gets kernel version
chroot <mount point> mkbootdsk <kernel version>
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
