Jack Coates wrote:
I already have 9.0 on BOTH installs it's just one doesn't work properly and I wanted to replaceIf it were me, I'd mkfs those partitions first. It's your funeral though, might as well try it and see how badly things get hosed up by that handful of 8.2 binaries that don't get replaced by 9.0 binaries.
it with the one that does. so this really isn't necessary right?
mtab is dynamically generated, leave it alone.
understood , won't touch it.
what is /aroot ?
should be /mnt/aroot/etc/lilo.conf if following my prev. example... When
you just run "lilo" it assumes you want to work on the current root
filesystem, which in this case is /dev/hdb. You need the switches to
tell it that you want to modify /dev/hda instead.
lilo is on the hda install and reads from /boot on the hda install as that's where the mbr is.
If I copy over the hdb install to hda, I loose lilo since it's not been installed on the second OS ( hdb )
even if I copy /boot from hda and restore it to hda after the change, I'll still need to install lilo and adjust it right?
also the OS on hda is already quite hosed. I wanted to replace it with the working version to save me setting up everything all over again with a re-install . In fact it won't boot into X now, so it probably won't hurt whatever I do.
If I can get everything switched over while I'm on hdb and make all adjustments manually before trying to boot
hda maybe it will atcually work !
Thanks in advance for your answers.
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thanks for the help.
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Jack Coates wrote:
boot to 9.0 on hdbMike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA
init 1
cd /
mkfs all the partitions you want to replace on hda
mount those partitions under /mnt/aroot, /mnt/ausr, /mnt/ahome, &c.
cp -a each of the directories from root to the new location: e.g.
cp -a /boot /mnt/aroot/
don't copy /tmp.
vi /mnt/aroot/etc/fstab and make sure it makes sense.
Not sure how to get grub to boot, but it's probably easier than lilo.
IIRC, you need something like:
vi /etc/lilo.conf and change any hdb references to hda
/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/aroot -b /dev/hda
If you get errors, abort and figure out why. Make sure you have a rescue
CD handy. If it breaks, it wasn't me.
HTH,
Jack
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 08:04, mycal62 wrote:
HI .
I'm trying to move my Mdk 9.0 install on hdb to hda.
To be as clear as I can , I installed 9.0 on a 6.4 wd drive ( hdb ) as a test install to see if I could get everything to work. I did and now have a very nice 9.0 install even with vmware working.
on hda ( 60 gig Maxtor ) I had mdk 8.0. Since I got 9.0 working I wanted to logically move to the larger and faster drive
hda. so I simply moved over my home partition from hdb to hda through file manager ( super user mode ) and installed 9.0 on hda. It installed fine , and my home settings worked fine. The problem I have run into is that while I have the printer, etc. all working fine on hdb ( old wd drive ) the new install on hda doesn't work right.
what I would like to do is copy the install on hdb ( / less the /boot partition ) to the new hda install (ext2) .
will I have to delete the contents of hda5 ( / ext3 ) first, saving the /boot to put back later?
( I know I'll have to adjust some things after this though I don't know what exactly
perhaps fstab )
Or can I simply use the file manager and copy over these partitions as I did /home ?
I don't think so , but how can I do this ?
hdb5=/ ext3 4023mb ----------------------------want to copy/move to hda5
hdb6=swap
hdb7=/home ext2 1922mb
hda1=/mnt/windows vfat 6991mb
hda5=/ ext2 9891mb-----------------------------destination for hdb5
hda6=swap
hda7=/home ext2 10786
hdb8=/backup ext2 28398
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