"eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed Rh 6.1(2nd partition) in my system ; it coexists
> with windows95 . My system has 4 gig hd and divided into 2 one
> allotted for windows and the other to Rh 6.1 .
> I wanted to install another disk of 13 gig [...]
> I wanted to know that when I install the other hd can I shift the
> Rh6.1 to it and allot the full 4 gig to windows ; if so how?
[...]
> Please give me a detailed answer if possible I am a newbie .
Well, this isn't a detailed answer I'm afraid, just a
suggestion of a strategy you might want to try: conserve
your time, and don't worry too much about wasting disk
space.
When I did something similar to this, I eventually decided
to just
(1) Put a new installation of linux on the big disk.
(2) Copy all of my existing user files from the old linux
installation to the new one.
(3) Hack lilo so that I can boot to either the old or the new
installation.
(4) When I was sure the new one worked okay, I changed the
default in lilo so that it booted the new one automatically.
Now, you could argue that the job isn't really done at this
point:
(a) Currently when I boot my system, it goes to the MBR of
the *old* disk, which kicks it into lilo, which then kicks
it to the linux installation on the *new* disk.
(b) My Windows partition (NT 4 in my case) is still only 2gb.
(c) There's 2gb of space on my old drive that's more or less
wasted (except that I have it mounted and accessible from my
new linux installation, and if I felt the need, I could
stash something there).
So maybe I should keep going, and if all I wanted to do was
mess around learning to be an ace sysadmin/hardware hacker,
I would. But instead, I figure "it ain't broke, don't fix
it". Life is short, and disk is cheap.
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