On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Paula Watt wrote:
> Hi
>
> Here's a partially Linux and partially Dos/Win problem.
>
> I'm running a dual boot system (Win95 and Linux), using LILO, and each
OS is on
> a
> separate physical hard drive. Last weekend I purchased a new hard
drive to
> upgrade
> my Win95 hard drive. It's a MAXTOR that comes with some software to
copy the
> contents of the old hard drive to the new. I got an error message
running that
> software
> which says effectively that it could not copy because "there are too
many root
> directory entries".
>
> Now, Maxtor tech support told me this was because of LILO, and that
makes
> sense. I
Does not. Lilo on the MBR and on the linux has no effect on the
contents of the windows partition. The world is filled with incompetent
technical support people.
> attempted to copy over the MBR by using the "fdisk /mbr" dos command.
Well, I
> no
> longer see LILO when my system boots up, but this software is still
detecting
> too
> many root directory entries.
>
> 1. How do I edit the number of root directory entries?
The number of root directory entries allowed is in bytes 11 and 12 of
the partition boot record, if it's fat or vfat. I've never seen fat32,
but I'd be willing to bet a nickel it's the same. You could boot up
linux with a floppy and edit it with bpe - careful, though, it's a
misaligned little-endian short integer (least signigicant byte first).
I don't think you really want to do that, though. You're likely to
orphan files and/or directories. If you have a lot of files in \ you
could move them to \<somewhere>.
> 2. Has LILO really be removed from my MBR?
As if it had never been there.
> 3. Any other suggestions on how to copy the data between these two
drives?
Make whatever kind of filesystem you want on the new drive. Boot up
linux, mount the drives on, say /<oldwin> and /<newwin> and do something
like:
tar -C /<oldwin> -cO . |tar -C /<newwin> -x[v]f -
or
cd /<oldwin>
find | cpio -p /<newwin>
or simply
cp -a /<oldwin> /<newwin>
If you're dealing with fat32, you'll need a fairly recent kernel -
2.0.34 or later, I think. I'm sure RedHat 5.2 would have no problem
with it.
>
> Thanks!
> Paula
>
Lawson
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