[Tfug] Partition Second Drive

[Joe Blais]

Hello -
You might be able to cheat with a virtual PC -- I 'm having a bit of mixed
success with it because of the display I have (a Dell flat panel).
On my desktop I run WinXP - should run on win2k -.  I got a free Virtual PC
from microsoft.  you might try it out before doing a bunch of other
partition stuff you can't recover from.

You just create a virtual pc.  You can tell it how much ram to use.  When it
boots the first time, it tries to load whatever OS from a CD or floppy, like
a real machine.
When installed, you have a large firl that acts like the hard drive, and
grows as you need it.  There is a config file that controls - whatever.  You
can also shut down at any time and it saves the current state (even between
installing multiple disk distributions).

You can shut down or save state, and then just make copies of the 2  or 3
files, and save those as backup.

It works better with winders products, but SUSE 10 works good, Fedora 1 is
good.  Fedora 4 & 5 seem to want to control my flat panel more -- I think a
regular crt would be good.

but for no money -- besides, I thing hard drives only allow 4 partitions.

It seems OK for testing things out but may not be a permanent solution.  If
all the virtual PCs were winders - it would work real good - you can even
run them concurrently if you have enough ram.  -- I've heard some people say
they have different virtual pcs for everyone in the family.

Joe



-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of DON
KIERZEK
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 10:41 AM
To: tfug at tfug.org
Subject: [Tfug] Partition Second Drive


Need a little help here.  Just got a second hard drive and want to copy my
Suse Linux 9.2 to it.  Currently have a 20GB drive w/W98, w2k and Suse
Linux.  Want to use the new 120GB drive for Suse and other distros of Linux,
keep the old drive for windows after deleting linux from it.  I've
partitioned and formatted before with windows but only for new installs so
this is  new to me.  I am familiar with fdisk on Linux and also YaST.  Have
gone to a number of sites for help and info and the more I read the more
confused I get.  Here are my basic questions:

1.  Do I need a primary partition on the second drive or just ext/logical?
2.  Do I need to create a swap partition on second drive or will that copy
from the first?(seem    to recall this option is given to me when using YaSt
on a new install)
3.  When I copy Linux from the old drive, do I need to unmount the windows
partitions?
4.  Do I NOT copy the /proc directory (read that somewhere?)
5.  I'm also not sure about a 'mount point' on the new drive.  YaSt gives
several options.
6.  If I do get this resolved, what would be the best way to copy from the
old drive to the new?  I have found several options but not sure what would
work best.

This is a simple system, just a home computer.  Might be easier to just do a
new install of Linux on the new drive since I've backed up everything I
want.  Anyhow, any help would be appreciated and my email is donkzk at msn.com

Thanks,
Don



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