Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-11 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Nope, it's not too late, this installation means too much to me (huh), so I'm not in rush and am considering various options. Probably i'll test all of the options on my test machine (if it's still alive) in couple of days. As of CloneZilla suggestion, I was not even considering it, don't know why

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:18:10 +0400 Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > I'll try to move unmounted /dev/sda2 from live-CD, that sounds more > reasonable to me. > > > thanks a lot for suggestions!! > > > > Regards > > Roman > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan < > andrew.mc

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: I'll try to move unmounted /dev/sda2 from live-CD, that sounds more reasonable to me. thanks a lot for suggestions!! You are welcome, but please read a little further below For parts 1 and 2, I would boot from a livecd of some kind and do the fo

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-11 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
I'll try to move unmounted /dev/sda2 from live-CD, that sounds more reasonable to me. thanks a lot for suggestions!! Regards Roman On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > > Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > >> Debian

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: Debian is on dev/sda2, i'm moving it to /dev/sda5 After some research and thinking(!), my plan is to do following steps: 1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt 2. cp -ax /* /mnt 3. modify /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst 4. modify /mnt/etc/fstab For parts 1 and 2, I would boot from a l

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roman Khomasuridze wrote: Hello kind people. The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary partition, so I'm thinking to move my current

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-09 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Thanks for reply.. well, I'm not planning to touch MBR, GRUB, or whatever, my main goal at this stage is to move Debian system from one partition to another safely, without issues. Also, second question raised, after moving Debian to another partition (thus moving menu.lst), won't GRUB fail to lo

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 09 October 2010 11:26:53 Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > Hello kind people. > > The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but > unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and > as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary pa

Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-09 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Hello kind people. The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary partition, so I'm thinking to move my current Debian installatin from primar