Hi, I'd just like to confirm this before I make a mistake and hurt my system.
The existing system drive is /dev/sda: /dev/sda3 is root /dev/sda1 is boot That's all there is. Using the stage4 tar I idea I added a drive which is /dev/sdb and has these partitions of interest /dev/sdb3 will be new root /dev/sdb1 will be new boot /dev/sdb5 will be new var /dev/sdb6 will be new video I've mounted the new drive under /mnt like this: /dev/sdb3 /mnt/backups [[[This will be the new / ]]] /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backups/boot /dev/sdb5 /mnt/backups/var /dev/sdb6 /mnt/backups/video So this essentially creates a new file system that will eventually take over when I boot from this drive tomorrow. (Hopefully) Now, in the video directory I have my stage4 tar file which I want to untar into this new drive and not, hopfully, over my old drive. Will the following work? cd /mnt/backups tar xjpf video/Sector9-stage4-2008.05.07-custom.tar.bz2 I'm just trying to be really careful here. I think this is all an extension of how we build a Gentoo machine by untaring a stage3 file but I'm doing it on a system that's live and I don't want to mess up the exiting drive. If this is correct then I'll chroot into the new environment for testing, adding grub, etc., and then do a BIOS change to boot off of the second drive and hopefully be live. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
