[Tfug] Partition Second Drive

Wed Oct 25 09:17:09 MST 2006

Thanks for your suggestion, Joe.  I'm not familiar with virtual PC's so I 
tried partitioning with YaST and apparently did something wrong because when 
I went to copy directories I could not open the Konsole or get back into 
YaST.  Oh well!  Rebooted and could not boot to either windows partition and 
could only get text mode in Linux.  Was unable to do anything so I got my 
Suse DVD out and tried the Update and Rescue options and couldn't accomplish 
anything there either.  I'd apparently done something to corrupt GRUB.  I 
did a new install and partitioned the new drive and have my Suse 9.2 on the 
second drive and the old version with all my files still accessible on the 
old drive and can also access windows.  So far, it seems to work (fingers 
cxrossed)

In regard to your comment about a limit of 4 partitions, that only applies 
to primary partitions and that is the limit but it is possible to put 50 or 
more logical partitions on an extended partition.

Thanks again.

>From: "Joe Blais" <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com>
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>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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