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Hi, |
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I'd just like to confirm this before I make a mistake and hurt my system. |
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The existing system drive is /dev/sda: |
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/dev/sda3 is root |
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/dev/sda1 is boot |
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That's all there is. |
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Using the stage4 tar I idea I added a drive which is /dev/sdb and |
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has these partitions of interest |
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/dev/sdb3 will be new root |
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/dev/sdb1 will be new boot |
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/dev/sdb5 will be new var |
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/dev/sdb6 will be new video |
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I've mounted the new drive under /mnt like this: |
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/dev/sdb3 /mnt/backups [[[This will be the new / ]]] |
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/dev/sdb1 /mnt/backups/boot |
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/dev/sdb5 /mnt/backups/var |
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/dev/sdb6 /mnt/backups/video |
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So this essentially creates a new file system that will eventually |
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take over when I boot from this drive tomorrow. (Hopefully) |
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Now, in the video directory I have my stage4 tar file which I want to |
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untar into this new drive and not, hopfully, over my old drive. Will |
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the following work? |
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cd /mnt/backups |
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tar xjpf video/Sector9-stage4-2008.05.07-custom.tar.bz2 |
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I'm just trying to be really careful here. I think this is all an |
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extension of how we build a Gentoo machine by untaring a stage3 file |
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but I'm doing it on a system that's live and I don't want to mess up |
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the exiting drive. |
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If this is correct then I'll chroot into the new environment for |
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testing, adding grub, etc., and then do a BIOS change to boot off of |
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the second drive and hopefully be live. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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