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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:22 am    Post subject: deleting windows 2000 for gentoo Reply with quote

I have gentoo on 30G partition and windows 2000 on 70G partition. I want to delete windows to create more room for gentoo. How would I go about this
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Use fdisk to delete the partition. Then use any of the open-source utilites for resizing the partition. Which program you use depends on what type of partition you will be resizing.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was thinking about getting a extra hard drive would it be possible to copy over everything from gentoo to the new hard drive and how would I do it
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I was thinking about getting a extra hard drive would it be possible to copy over everything from gentoo to the new hard drive and how would I do it


Follow Hawson's instructions (7th post) in this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=72947&highlight=duplicating+root+directory

I just did it myself on Monday.
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