ShokTHX
May 22nd, 2008, 09:53 PM
I a bit new at Linux. My first success (after several tries over the years) was last week with Ubuntu 8.04. I am hooked and have ordered a new hard drive so I can install it dual booted on my laptop.
Here are my plans:
Install new hard drive as primary and partition it NTFS (my laptop is an HP dv8000 with 2 physical drives).
Copy XP partition from old drive to new drive using Linux (I believe the command starts with dd or something)
Resize the XP partition and install Ubuntu 64 bit (laptop is AMD Turion 64).
I am moving from a 100gig to a 160gig drive. Once finished, I'll be placing my current data drive back as the second hard drive and keeping the old XP drive as a backup.
I am hoping this will keep me from doing any serious damage to my current data and move it safely to the new drive.
I am really impressed with Ubuntu and the some of the other current releases of Linux and also plan to add some additional partitions later to play with some of the other distributions. I see Ubuntu as possiblly replacing nearly all my use for XP in the future but need to keep XP for the time being till I am sure I have Linux mastered.
Am I following the right method? Will this work? Any suggestions for the commands to use? I am hoping the drive will be here Friday.
Thanks
James
Here are my plans:
Install new hard drive as primary and partition it NTFS (my laptop is an HP dv8000 with 2 physical drives).
Copy XP partition from old drive to new drive using Linux (I believe the command starts with dd or something)
Resize the XP partition and install Ubuntu 64 bit (laptop is AMD Turion 64).
I am moving from a 100gig to a 160gig drive. Once finished, I'll be placing my current data drive back as the second hard drive and keeping the old XP drive as a backup.
I am hoping this will keep me from doing any serious damage to my current data and move it safely to the new drive.
I am really impressed with Ubuntu and the some of the other current releases of Linux and also plan to add some additional partitions later to play with some of the other distributions. I see Ubuntu as possiblly replacing nearly all my use for XP in the future but need to keep XP for the time being till I am sure I have Linux mastered.
Am I following the right method? Will this work? Any suggestions for the commands to use? I am hoping the drive will be here Friday.
Thanks
James