On Saturday 09 October 2010 11:26:53 Roman Khomasuridze wrote:
> Hello kind people.
>
> The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but
> unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and
> as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary partition,
> so I'm thinking to move my current Debian installatin from primary partiion
> to logical one.
>
> here is my fdisk -l
>
>
> /dev/sda1 * 1 2610 20964793+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 2611 3656 8401995 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 3657 3899 1951897+ 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/sda4 3900 38913 281249924+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 3900 4872 7815591 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 4873 38913 273434301 83 Linux
>
> Debian is on dev/sda2, i'm moving it to /dev/sda5
>
> After some research and thinking(!), my plan is to do following steps:
>
> 1. mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
> 2. cp -ax /* /mnt
> 3. modify /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
> 4. modify /mnt/etc/fstab
>
> So, am I missing something? Will these four steps be enough?
> My current Debian install is approx 2 years old, and I don't want to screw
> it up.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!!