On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Format your new drive, and create the ext2 or whatever Linux fs you want. Does creating the file system happen when I initialize athe partitions or is this a separate step that I need to do? Since I am probably going to use the rescue disk for debian potato r2 (speakup enabled) I think this means the system will be ext2 though I would eventually like to go to ext3. Next, mount your new drive to /mnt or whatever mount point you want. Am I trying to mount the whole drive or just the root partition? Since this hard drive is a lot larger than my old one, I was considering putting some directorie on other partitions. Does this just mean I mount the appropriate partition to transfer those directories? With a 20-gig hard drive, I'll have a really big partition if I put the whole system (minus boot and swap and a dos partition) on one partition. Then, prepare a loadlin disk to > boot your new drive. Where should I look for information about doing a loadlin disk? The only way I've ever used loadlin before is on a dos drive to boot into linux. Thanks. Cheryl
