Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-18 Thread Richard A Downing
Tom wrote: > How do I correctly move the root partition to another partition? Im also > want to move /usr /var as well and probably /home > > I've not tried this, but I think it should work. Boot using something like this grub line: kernel (hd0,5)/boot/lfskernel-1.2.3 root=/dev/hda4 init=/bin/

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Lord
Hi, I do this procedure quite often. My Linux machine has a partition JUST for building new LFS versions. Once that is finished, I them move everything over to other partitons. Having a separate /boot partition is useful. My pc is partitoned thus: hda1 = /boot(small < 100Mb EXT) hda2 = s

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread sunaram
when you are moving you should be more careful. see that your boot loader is updated. like, you have to setup ur grub in that root partition again. i personally don't recommend it. --- Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > > I cant read that page its small ??? > > 1) Mov

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread Jeremy Byron
Tom wrote: I cant read that page its small ??? 1) Move your mouse pointer into the middle of the focused browser window 2) Hold CTRL 3) Spin your mouse wheel (or tap + if you haven't one) Regards, Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromsc

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread Lennon Cook
On 10/18/05, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I correctly move the root partition to another partition? Im > also want to move /usr /var as well and probably /home Essentially, if the pathnames of things stay the same (ie, what's currently in /var will still be in /var, just on a different p

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread Tom
>hi, > i think this will help you. >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/partitioning-p1.xml >--- Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How do I correctly move the root partition to >> another partition? Im >> also want to move /usr /var as well and probably >> /home >> >> >> -- >> >http://linu

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread sunaram
hi, i think this will help you. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/partitioning-p1.xml --- Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I correctly move the root partition to > another partition? Im > also want to move /usr /var as well and probably > /home > > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.or

Moving /root partition

2005-10-17 Thread Tom
How do I correctly move the root partition to another partition? Im also want to move /usr /var as well and probably /home -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page