Eric "Shubes" wrote: > 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 that should've been of=/dev/hdb > > 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