Re: ?????

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I've got an interesting question....
>I want to copy everything off my 1.6g drive and place it on a 5.1g drive
>to make it the new primary hard drive.

Install drive as slave.
make partitions (fdisk, etc,  same number and order as your current drive,
they can be diffrent sizes).
mkfs partitions
tar from one filesystem to another
 i.e (cd /home; tar -cmplvf - *) | (cd /new/home; tar -xmpvf -)
  or something real similair
make boot disk
switch primary/master jumpers
boot from boot disk
run lilo
see if the system boots.


Isn't their something about an "active" partition?  I seem to remember that from
my DOS days, but I haven't seen the term in ages.

>Is there a faq that covers this?

Not that I know of.

man tar
man fdisk
IDE-HOWTO?

>Thanks in advance for any help..

Well, you should save that till AFTER you trash your system by following my
advice (I'm a college drop-out remember,  and I went to the high-school with the
highest illegitimate birth rate in the State of Michigan at the time).

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