More of my running out of BIOS-accessible space saga. My Linux partitions with a few gigs of Android development stuff are intact on my laptop, I just need to rearrange the boot partition (I think). I've got empty partitions set aside for installing Linux on my desktop machine. Can I do a dump from OpenBSD over my lan to a Linux restore (I've now got an Arch Linux live cd)? Or should I do the restore to OpenBSD on the desktop writing to the Linux partitions? I don't know about permissions and ownerships of files, specifically.
I set that up differently. I used 2 cylinders to make a grub-only partition at the start of the Linux space. I'm hoping to load grub as an option from the XP bootloader then having it boot Debian and probably Arch. If I get it working I'll set my laptop up the same way and clone it back. I could use rsync or make tarballs but I think dump/restore is probably best. Oh, the grub in ports/sysutils seems to be the original, not grub2 which development has also stopped on. The original got to be too patched together, so grub2 is a complete rewrite. stage1 and stage2 is old stuff. A Grub partition needs to be at least 12 megs. -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
