My setup now has 1 SATA drive with XP and 1 IDE drive with 2partitions, Feisty Fawn on hdc1 & Dapper Drake on hdc2. I need theIDE drive for an older computer. I have a new SATA drive to replacethe IDE drive. I have room & connections for all 3 drives in my box.Is their away to copy both Ubuntu OS's to the new hard?
Yes, boot with a LiveCD and use "dd" or "dd_rescue" to copy the IDE driveimage to the new SATA drive.if old ide drive is /dev/hdc and new SATA is /dev/sdb then:dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/sdbNote: neither drive should be mounted."dd_rescue" will check for bad sectors and adj accordingly.see: dd --help or rescue_dd --help
I believe I successfully copied the drive. I hit "e" when I rebootedand changed hd1,0 to hd2,0 and booted just fine.I'm going to remove the IDE drive. Will I need to edit the boot menuor will hd2,0 become hd1,0 after disconnecting the old drive?
You could probably ghost them scross but I would partition and load eachbistro afresh.