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On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy <antroy@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB |
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> for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb |
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> whilst partitioning?) |
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Some softwares like partition magic can do that, but they run under |
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doze. I'd prefer making a backup, and a fresh repartition tbh. |
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> 2) Install Gentoo on the new partition with grub set up to boot from |
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> hda and hdb. This way I can run Suse whilst not actively installing |
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> Gentoo. |
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You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do |
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your gentoo installation. |
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> 3) Once Gentoo is running the necessary software (the minimum is |
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> probably ssh, an FTP server, Subversion and apache with mod_python). |
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> So far so good. But what is necessary to remove the old drive? The |
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> plan is to move the 120GB drive into the hda position. Clearly I will |
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> have to edit grub.conf, and fstab, but are there any other things I |
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> will need to think about. |
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Not that I can think of, except you will probably need to reinstall |
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your grub. And if you've done a backup when doing step one, you |
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shouldn't suffer any data loses. |
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Just my .02USD. |
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-- Joe |
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