copy to replacement hard drive

Andrew Zschetzsche zsche004 at morris.umn.edu
Sat Feb 19 01:32:21 MST 2005


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This last week I got a new harddrive for my iBook G4, so I put the new 
one in and put the old one in a USB2.0/FireWire enclosure.  So far I've 
been able to:
1. Get my OS X partition copied over
2. Installed YDL 4.0 from the CD's to properly set up my linux 
partitions
3. Used a Gentoo bootstrap CD to copy over the contents of the old 
partition to the new partition, making sure to preserve permissions.
4. Booted under YDL on the new disk and ran ybin.

I can boot YDL fine, no problems, but I can't start X properly.  GDM 
begins, but then dies after five attempts.  When I startx under my user 
account, i can (but it just boots AfterStep).  If I startx as root, (i 
know, not a good idea), i get errors regarding starting KDE.

So GNOME (at least GDM) and KDE, or something between the two, is 
broken.

Any ideas, or any suggestions on how I should duplicate the partitions?

Thanks,
Andy
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