On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB > for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb > whilst partitioning?)
Some softwares like partition magic can do that, but they run under doze. I'd prefer making a backup, and a fresh repartition tbh. > > 2) Install Gentoo on the new partition with grub set up to boot from > hda and hdb. This way I can run Suse whilst not actively installing > Gentoo. You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do your gentoo installation. > 3) Once Gentoo is running the necessary software (the minimum is > probably ssh, an FTP server, Subversion and apache with mod_python). > > So far so good. But what is necessary to remove the old drive? The > plan is to move the 120GB drive into the hda position. Clearly I will > have to edit grub.conf, and fstab, but are there any other things I > will need to think about. Not that I can think of, except you will probably need to reinstall your grub. And if you've done a backup when doing step one, you shouldn't suffer any data loses. Just my .02USD. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
