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|    J.O. Aho to All    |
|    Re: Copying one partition to another?    |
|    21 Sep 07 21:09:54    |
      From: user@example.net              ***** charles wrote:              > 1. is there any way to get graphics going?              add the following boot option to the prompt: vga=0x301              It may or may not help you                     > 2. is there a single command at the # prompt that       > I can use to do the copying?              cp -a /mnt/c/* /mnt/e/              of course you need to change the mount point names to the ones that is       used (do a: ls /mnt )              this will of course not fix the mbr, so you won't be able to boot into       the microsoft install, you should run a repair install from the       microsoft cd.                     There are other tools you can use for "copy", like dd, unison, rsync,       tar and so on...                                          --               //Aho              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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