Eric Clover wrote:

> i think someone just covered this recently but i was not paying
> attention.:(
> sorry.
> i have /dev/hda running my swap,/boot, and /
> i just got a new hd and added it as /dev/hdc
> (i already had a /dev/hdb)
> dev/hda has hda1(/boot), hda5(/),hda6(128m swap), and hda7(128m swap)
> i'd like to just move all of hda to hdc and make hdc the new hda.
> ill need to move the mbr to hdc from hda. is this going to be not so
> much
> of an easy thing, or am i looking at mass difficulties and a possibility
> of
> loosing everything?
> awaiting words of wisdom please.
> thank you
> eric

Eric , I believe you can use dd for this.  Search the list for dd and mbr
and you will probably find it.  On the other hand would'nt running lilo do
the same thing?  Also I am not sure that you wont need to run fdisk to make
the new hda  bootable.  I forget the terms used.

Hope this helps

Bret



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