Re: [Mu] Cloning to an extended partition.

From: pat@umd.edu
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 01:11:59 CEST

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    Yeah it let me type in /dev/hda7. I guess the fact that it
    didn't list it when it printed out my partition table just
    confused me. However I'm still not 100% sure that it will
    work because I think I have a bad floppy which cannot find
    lilo. Oh well. Thanks for the input guys.

                                -Pat

    On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Michele Andreoli wrote:
    > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:50:10PM -0400, pat@umd.edu nicely wrote:
    > > I dunno, It give the option for an ext2 install. it just
    > > doesnt let me choose any partition over hda4. Thanks for
    > > the help though. Anyone else have input on this?
    > >
    >
    > If you have the change to write, in the right field, the /dev/hda7 string,
    > you can do that safety.
    >
    > When the system ask you for the boot partition, I suggest to select
    > "/dev/fd0", as a test.
    >
    > Michele
    >
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