Randy Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > > a) partition this empty space into a bunch of new partitions and <move> my > > current system onto it, without completely reinstalling? > > As I remember (read: get someone else's opinion to be sure:-) all I did > was to create the paritions, make file systems on them, copy the appropriate > subdirectory trees to the various partitions, edit the fstab on the new / > directory/partition, edit Lilo's config (make sure to be able to boot either > Linux setup in case one doesn't work) and run Lilo.
I've done this a lot. I also like to install lilo on a diskette first, just to be sure. Also, you can copy your kernel to a diskette (using dd) and simply change it's root partition to the new one with rdev. e.g. to change the kernel on the floppy /dev/fd0 to boot to a new root partition /dev/hda7, you'd do: # rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda7 -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
