Installing on a disk still needed
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:53 am
My X1000 died early December. After many fits and starts, I now have Amiga running again on the old SAM460ex that I never got around to trying to sell once I got the X1000.
I installed OS4.1FE anew on the Amiga disk from the X1000. This was a pretty simple matter. The install CD let me copy the system ("DH0:") content to another directory on the hard drive before setting it up for the install, so now I have all the partitions I had on the X1000 plus all the little odds and ends from the old DH0: that I can copy into the new one when needed.
But I had been using Ubuntu MATE perhaps more than the Amiga side until disaster struck. I'm hoping that I can move my Linux hard drive over from the X1000 and restore MATE on it without losing important data. My guess is that an install disk will allow me to format a new, hopefully still unused, area on the drive, and then install the system there. Then I should be able to access the things I need, such as Scribus files, from the new system. As I remember things on Linux, I won't be able to simply install the new system over the old without wiping out my important stuff, but am I wrong by any chance?
And after a few years of using CFE, I'm going to have to learn how to set UBoot to boot a Linux disk. And where will I put the kernel?
I installed OS4.1FE anew on the Amiga disk from the X1000. This was a pretty simple matter. The install CD let me copy the system ("DH0:") content to another directory on the hard drive before setting it up for the install, so now I have all the partitions I had on the X1000 plus all the little odds and ends from the old DH0: that I can copy into the new one when needed.
But I had been using Ubuntu MATE perhaps more than the Amiga side until disaster struck. I'm hoping that I can move my Linux hard drive over from the X1000 and restore MATE on it without losing important data. My guess is that an install disk will allow me to format a new, hopefully still unused, area on the drive, and then install the system there. Then I should be able to access the things I need, such as Scribus files, from the new system. As I remember things on Linux, I won't be able to simply install the new system over the old without wiping out my important stuff, but am I wrong by any chance?
And after a few years of using CFE, I'm going to have to learn how to set UBoot to boot a Linux disk. And where will I put the kernel?