augie wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2005 11:16, plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > wrote: > >>Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:17:48 -0700 >>From: Donn >>Subject: Re: Partition question >>To: Main PLUG discussion list >>Message-ID: <42e7b40b050708231712e02382@mail.gmail.com> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >>If you created a partition, but didn't format it, all should have to do is >>to boot from the WinXP disk and select this partition as the destination >>for XP and format it, then install. >> >>I've done this many times without any problem. >> >>Good luck. > > Actually I guess I didn't word my question correctly. What I'm trying to do is > dd from one hard drive(with xp installed) to this partition on a different > hard drive with CentOS. Will this work or am I going about this backwards? I don't know for sure that it won't work. I've never done it that way. > Should I have dd'd the xp partition onto a blank hd and then installed linux? > TIA That certainly would have been the preferred method: dd if=/dev/hda of=hdb bs=1024 You might try: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb3 bs=1024 where if= points to windoze partition, of= points to unused partition. If that works, you'd then have to adjust grub's menu (/boot/grub/menu.lst) parameters manually to add windows as a boot option. -- -Eric 'shubes' "There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and individual purposes." -William E. Simon (1927-2000), Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 **************************************************** This message has been scanned using Contraxx Technology Group mail server v8.0.3 and is virus free. Message sent from Mail Server 3 **************************************************** --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss