Physically install the hard drive in the box and make sure bios recognises the drive. I will assume it is hooked up on ide1 as slave which Linux will call /dev/hdb. Alter to fit how you install the drive. Boot into your Linux user's account in a gui if you wish and open an x terminal and give these commands:
Code:
[phil@fancypiper phil]$ su -
Password:
[root@fancypiper root]# fdisk /dev/hdb
Some people prefer cfdisk.
Create your partition scheme. For a home Linux box, I like primary partitions:
/boot - 20 - 100 mb, not necessary if you use ext3/3 fs for /
swap - 128 mb
/ 3-5 gig depending on software wanted
/home - the rest of the drive
Save the partition table by exiting with
w. Wipe the first part of each partition to make sure it is cleaned of extraneous microsoft stuff
Code:
[root@fancypiper root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdxy bs=1K count=1
Make your filesystems with the mkfs commands
mke2fs /dev/hdXX fot ext2fs
mke2fs -j /dev/hdXX fof ext3fs
mkreiserfs dev/hdXX - reiserfs
mkfs.xfs dev/hdXX - xfs
mkswap
Next/ make 2 directorys, say /mnt/source and /mnt destination
Mount your current os on /mnt/source
Mount the newly partitioned drive on /mnt destination, making the needed sub directories to mount the partitions.
Next, clone the system by piping over with tar
Code:
[root@fancypiper root]# cd /mnt/source
[root@fancypiper root]# tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -)
When finished, you can use that drive installed in the original position.
Next, install a bootloader on the mbr of the drive if it is installed as /dev/hda
Installing a bootloader
If installed somewhere else, edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf to reflect your changes.
Try that with Windows!
