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or you can select thhis option from the windows format disk menu in my computer.
Next, get a copy of loadlin.exe, and put it on the disk.
Then create autoexec.bat similar to the below lines depending on your configuration.

autoexec.bat
@echo off
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 speakup_synth=xxx speakup_ser=y ro

end autoexec.bat

Of course, adjust the above for your needs. Hth.
Greg


On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:17:43AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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