Tranfering Linux

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Sat May 17 15:23:15 EDT 2003


Yes it's  easiest to install windows first, then add a second HD and 
install linux on that. Whilt doing the linux install it will detect 
windows and the bootloader will have options for both. If you have 
existing  installs an entry to the boot loader can be easily altered.

>K thanks one last question request this is there a way to have linux on
>a master hardrive and windows as a dual boot slave?
>
>On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 11:43, Cyber Source wrote:
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>>Bring both drives tomorrow, we can do a transfer with a dump and
>>restore pipe to the new drive
>>On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 11:09, Justin Bennett wrote: 
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>>>Joshua Altemoos wrote:
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>>>>Hello,
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>>>>I have a bigger harddrive i want to move linux on to. How would i do
>>>>this in the linux interface? I am Useing MDK9.1 DL. Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Joshua
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>>>Hmm, Not really an easy way to do this to do like a disk clone. You can 
>>>do a really complex tar method I use, that involves using the rescue 
>>>mode of the boot CD, Or I reccomend using Norton (Symantec) Ghost. It 
>>>does Linux partitions now. YOu boot to a dos prompt and run it from dos.
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>>-- 
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>>Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
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