#1 2015-11-08 10:43:54

Temetka

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From: Sol System, Western Spiral Arm

Registered: 2015-10-14

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Moving my BL setup to a new SSD

I have an experiment I want to try.

I want to run BL as my main OS with Windows 10 in a VM and see if it fill all my requirements for work. I tire of dual booting.

I really love my BL setup right now and don't want to redo it.

In my Thinkpad I have a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD dual booting Windows 10 Enterprise (legal) and BL RC1.

I'd like to clone my BL setup to another 250GB SSD.

Here is the output of the df command:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6       69145088 11908412  53701268  19% /
udev               10240        0     10240   0% /dev
tmpfs            1610896     9120   1601776   1% /run
tmpfs            4027232     4304   4022928   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            4027232        0   4027232   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             805448        4    805444   1% /run/user/108
tmpfs             805448        8    805440   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/mmcblk0p1   7753728  5120704   2633024  67% /media/temetka/CHIP

lsblk output:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0 232.9G  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0   500M  0 part 
├─sda2        8:2    0 162.4G  0 part 
├─sda3        8:3    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda5        8:5    0   2.9G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda6        8:6    0  67.1G  0 part /
sr0          11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
mmcblk0     179:0    0   7.4G  0 disk 
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   7.4G  0 part /media/temetka/CHIP

SDA1 = Bootloader partition
SDA2 = Windows 10
SDA3 = IDK 1k???? wth
SDA5 = Linux Swap
SDA6 = BL RC1 - Yeah baby!
MMCBLK0P1 = My 8GB SD card where I keep various files.

Any help in accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Temetka (2015-11-08 10:47:26)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Moving my BL setup to a new SSD

Lots of options.

You can simply clone the whole partition using dd(1) or copy the filesystem over using rsync(1) or you could even make an image of the system using, eg, clonezilla.

If using dd(1) or rsync(1), the bootloader would have to be installed to the new drive and GRUB would have to be re-configured; you may also have to rebuild the initramfs but I think Debian builds "huge" initial ramdisks by default.

EDIT: Using dd(1) on a 60GiB partition will take a *long* time.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-11-08 10:52:51)

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nobody0

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Re: Moving my BL setup to a new SSD

If you can install BL, or you have BL installed, its quite simple to install Win10 in Virtualbox.
Testing Win10 downloaded from their site, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 2782#p2782
Went through the motions in Virtualbox.

KrunchTime

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Moving my BL setup to a new SSD

This might be useful for installing Windows 10 in VirtualBox:

Windows 7 Pro in VirtualBox

Oh...depending on how you plan to use Windows 10 in a VM, VMware Player might prove to be a better tool.  In my past experience, there were too many instances where an update to VirtualBox broke things that worked in a previous version, notably the ability to use USB ports on the host.

Last edited by KrunchTime (2015-11-10 00:57:19)