PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 5682

[Eric "Shubes"]

augie wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 11:16, plug-discuss-request at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> wrote:
> 
>>Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:17:48 -0700
>>From: Donn <dlshumway at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: Partition question
>>To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>Message-ID: <42e7b40b050708231712e02382 at mail.gmail.com>
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>>
>>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

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