06-17-2003
Copying a Linux distro from one partition to the other...
Hola. Here is how my partition table looks:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 1 1689 13566861 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde2 * 1690 2783 8787555 83 Linux
/dev/hde3 2784 2813 240975 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde4 2814 4111 10426185 5 Extended
/dev/hde5 2814 4065 10056658+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde6 4066 4111 369463+ 82 Linux swap
I have Debian on hde2 and LFS on hde5. I haven't used Debian for a long, long time now (I only needed it to build LFS), so I want to format hde2 and then copy my LFS partition onto it. Is this safe to do?
If yes, then will a simple `cp / /mnt/debian` suffice?
Last edited by Mr_Proper; 06-17-2003 at 11:51 AM..
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