Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 26 mai 14, 08:51:54, Richard Owlett wrote: I had found "somewhere" a description of installing Grub2 to its own partition - I've mislaid the link. The general sequence was: 1. Do a fairly typical install of Squeeze(6.0.5) to primary partition sda1 allowing

[REPOST] Re: Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 26 mai 14, 08:51:54, Richard Owlett wrote: I had found "somewhere" a description of installing Grub2 to its own partition - I've mislaid the link. The general sequence was: 1. Do a fairly typical install of Squeeze(6.0.5) to primary partition sda1 allowin

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 26 mai 14, 08:51:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I had found "somewhere" a description of installing Grub2 to its own > partition - I've mislaid the link. > > The general sequence was: > 1. Do a fairly typical install of Squeeze(6.0.5) to primary partition sda1 > allowing installer to

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 24 mai 14, 12:07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running a series of experiments tweaking my Debian install. The procedure I wish to follow is: 0. Primary partition will have a normal install and will NOT be modified Grub2 installed to a second primary partiti

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 24 mai 14, 12:07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running a series of experiments tweaking my Debian install. > The procedure I wish to follow is: > 0. Primary partition will have a normal install and will NOT be modified > Grub2 installed to a second primary partition Do you mean "in

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Filip wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2014 12:07:04 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running a series of experiments tweaking my Debian install. The procedure I wish to follow is: 0. Primary partition will have a normal install and will NOT be modified Grub2 installed to a second primary parti

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 24 May 2014 12:07:04 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: How can I have each of the "clones" have a unique UUID. All partitions will be bootable and I suspect Grub could have problems. This should do it for the ext* filesystem: tune2fs -U Thank you. Reading the man p

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-24 Thread Filip
On Sat, 24 May 2014 12:07:04 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running a series of experiments tweaking my Debian install. > The procedure I wish to follow is: >0. Primary partition will have a normal install and will NOT > be modified > Grub2 installed to a second primary partition >

Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

2014-05-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 24 May 2014 12:07:04 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > How can I have each of the "clones" have a unique UUID. All > partitions will be bootable and I suspect Grub could have problems. This should do it for the ext* filesystem: tune2fs -U Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian