Merk42
August 17th, 2008, 04:03 AM
My current setup
- Master Drive - Windows Partition, additional NTFS Partition
- Slave Drive - Ubuntu and duplicate of addtional NTFS Partition
I'd like to just replace the Master with Ubuntu, having a seperate partition for Home. The Home partition I'd like to contain everything from my existing home as well as the contents of 'additional NTFS Partition'. I don't really care about the Windows Partition. In the end I also don't care about the Slave Drive, since everything will be on the Master.
I'm guessing I could just pop in the install CD and format the Master Drive. However, what would happen to GRUB? Would it try and let me boot both drives? Would I be able to mount the slave drive to transfer /home and NTFS? Can I even just copy /home from one to another or does Linux not work that way?
- Master Drive - Windows Partition, additional NTFS Partition
- Slave Drive - Ubuntu and duplicate of addtional NTFS Partition
I'd like to just replace the Master with Ubuntu, having a seperate partition for Home. The Home partition I'd like to contain everything from my existing home as well as the contents of 'additional NTFS Partition'. I don't really care about the Windows Partition. In the end I also don't care about the Slave Drive, since everything will be on the Master.
I'm guessing I could just pop in the install CD and format the Master Drive. However, what would happen to GRUB? Would it try and let me boot both drives? Would I be able to mount the slave drive to transfer /home and NTFS? Can I even just copy /home from one to another or does Linux not work that way?