On Wednesday 04 April 2007 21:06, dwain wrote: ... > I am replacing a 13GB drive and a 4GB drive with 2 40GB 7200rpm drives. > I had intended to use a 2GB drive that I have for the swap drive.
The 2 GB is probably very slow comparing to 40 GB, so just don't use it. > The > reason I'm using 40GB drives is that that's all the drive my BIOS on > this old machine will handle. Besides, I don't need a larger drive than > 40GB. :-) Wait a while and you'll see. I have 2x80 and external 120 on this machine and it is not too much. Have you tried a bigger drive. BIOS is relevant only for the first moments of booting, and for placement of boot partition. ... > Glad to know this, I guess that a select all and move/copy to the new > drive is all that is needed? It should work like that if you install 40 GB as /dev/hdb, boot in live CD. If not than don't copy /proc and /sys, just create empty directories on target partition. I'm wondering what would do dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb if you use it from some Live CD like: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page and then just put 40 GB as /dev/hda. I haven't tried that, but it should make perfect copy of 13 GB disk. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
