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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Copying a Linux distro from one partition to the other... Post 37365 by Mr_Proper on Tuesday 17th of June 2003 02:53:44 PM
Old 06-17-2003
Cool..

Cool, thanks for the info, guys. I was worried that certain software may have specific harddrive locations embedded in them, but maybe that is just one of the annoying quirks of Windows.

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As long as your bootloader is on the MBR, then cp -r should do the trick. Remember to redo your config files!
The bootloader is on the Debian partition (hde2). Windows doesn't want to put its bootloader anywhere else except the MBR, so I had to do it that way. I'm going to do what Tux said and chroot to do all the lilo stuff. Hopefully that works. Thanks again, guys. Smilie
 

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UPDATE-BOOTLOADER(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      UPDATE-BOOTLOADER(1)

NAME
update-bootloader - update/change bootloader configuration using Bootloader::Tools perl module SYNOPSIS
update-bootloader [operation] [options] operation is one of --add, --remove or --refresh. valid options are --help, --man, --image <file>, --initrd <file>, --xen-kernel <file>, --xen, --default, --previous, --name <string>, --force, --force-default. DESCRIPTION
update-bootloader will let you modify your bootloader configuration using Bootloader::Tools perl module. OPERATIONS
--add add an new image section. Needs a call to --refresh to take effect. --remove remove the specified image section. Needs a call to --refresh to take effect. --refresh activate the new config e.g. write boot loader to disk PARAMETER
--help Print a brief help message and exits. --man Prints the manual page and exits. --image file specify path to kernel image --initrd file specify path to initrd file --xen specify that you what to add a xen and not a regular image section --xen-kernel file specify that you what to add a xen section with a specific image. Implies --xen option. --default let the new section to be added be the default section if appropriate. Only allowed together with --add operation --previous set some usuable defaults for image, initrd and name when --name string specify the name of the section to be added/removed --force dont complain, just do the right thing --force-default force the new section to be added to be the default section. Only allowed together with --add operation perl v5.12.1 2010-04-22 UPDATE-BOOTLOADER(1)
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