Help with dd needed

Old Drive:
2.5 gigs on one fat partition (that just sounds wrong)

New Drive:
I will fdisk it blank and then create a 8 gig first partiton which will receive
all the files to be copied over and then a 32 gig second partition to fart
around with later.

I am concerned really only with the dding the MBR. I can figure out cp again (it
has been a few months away fromt he command prompt) on my own.

Thanks for the reply.


Quoting Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>:

> > I need to know more to make sure I understand what you want to do.
>
> What is the size of the old drive?
> What partitions does it have?
> What is on the new drive, if anything?
> What partitions do you want the new drive to have?
>
> I know that maybe those questions are redundant to what you already said
> but I
> just want to better understand what you are trying to do.
>
> Finally, are you doing this operation live, right now? Do you have
> access to
> an IRC client? We might could do this chatting.
>
> Alan
>
> On Friday 14 November 2003 11:06 pm, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> > I have to deal with a win 98 computer that a hard drive that is too
> > small/loud. I have a 40 gig drive that I would like to repace the old
> drive
> > with.
> >
> > I would like to boot from my BBC linux disk (like knoppix) and copy
> the
> > entire disk over to a 8 gig partition and then create another fat
> partiton
> > of 32 gig to get around the limits of fat32.
> >
> > My concern is I do not know how to use dd to copy the boot sector from
> one
> > drive to the next and I am getting next to nothing from the man
> page.
> > Assuming that the old drive is hda and the partiton is and the new
> drive is
> > hdb what will the command be?
> >
> > While I am it I would just need to use the recursive option on cp to
> get
> > everything to copy across corectly?
> >
> > Thanks for the consideration.
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