Well, I'm back and ready to try again. I followed this guide exactly except instead of kos_root="/home/foobert/dc" I used kos_root="/home/travis/dc/kos/kos-1.3.0" but I don't think that matters and the compilation failed. Logs generated: build-binutils-arm-elf-2.15.log and build-...

Alright. I started fresh. I ran make and got this: travis@travis-desktop:~/Desktop/dc-chain-0.1-gcc346$ make cd gcc-3.4.6; patch -p1 < /home/travis/Desktop/dc-chain-0.1-gcc346/patches/gcc-3.4.6.diff patching file gcc/config/sh/kos.h can't find file to patch at input line 28 Perhaps you used the wron...

This would be just the compilers. You would unpack it and then proceed to setup and compile KOS, which is the easy part. Wait... would that happen to be the exact same thing as this that BA put up? Is there some crazy catch to just using that? I don't know - it should work. I was able to compile it...

When I ran make, it kept saying it couldn't find some patches and would ask me where they were or something... I just hit enter and said skip the patch. What should I have done there? Do I need to run "unpack.sh" and fix something before I try again? Or is it all good? BTW, after it asked ...

Alright, I have binutils-2.15, gcc-3.4.6, and newlib-1.12.0 in the dc-chain-0.1-gcc346 dirrectory. I have kos and kos-ports downloaded into my home dirrectory. I told the make file where kos lives. Now, I typed "make patch" into the terminal and it said "bash: make: command not found&...

But I really don't know where to start to get things set up. I could've sworn I searched this forum before and saw info on how to do it... but I can't find it now for some reason. Perhaps my memory is failing me. I did a google search and found this , but that one "http://gamedev.allusion.net/s...

Yeah, I asked Google and it said to hit F3 in the BIOS. At that point, my new drive became recognized! Woot! Now my system boots about 500 times faster than it used to. The point is... everything is friggen working now. And I have you to thank BlackAura. Now, time to screw around in Ubuntu and make ...

I'm mad as friggen heck. I spent all that time installing Ubuntu and it still wouldn't boot. When I restarted my computer after the succesful install, it did the exact same thing as when I tried to boot windows after the clone. I wrote down some of the things my computer said when it starts: Pri Mas...

That all worked. I was able to list the contents of the drive... I'll go ahead and install Ubuntu and hope for the best.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/hda1 of=bootsector bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 4.11686 seconds, 0.1 kB/s ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ file bootsector bootsector: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1", sectors/cluster 64, Media descriptor 0xf...

I'm not sure. At the very begining I guess. I don't remember the exact wording. I'm not even sure you could consider the boot itself a failure because I don't think it ever existed. I have a feeling that I copied 40gig worth of zeros to the new drive because linux didn't know how to read the old one.

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5346/screenshotwc3.png I thought Linux was able to handle Fat32... What do you mean by copy the filesystem data over? If this is going to be way too much trouble for you, just tell me and I'll just forget about the old drive and reinstall windows on the new one. Alt...

Crap. It didn't boot. I pulled out the old drive and tried to boot with the new one..... it failed. *sigh* I went back into Linux and took a look at GParted. It shows the 40 gig partition there with the rest unallocated... I don't know why it didn't work. Here's a screenshot of GParted. http://img21...

Nevermind, I just gave it more time and it finally said something. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=1M dd: opening `/dev/hdb': Permission denied ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ man sudo Reformatting sudo(8), please wait... ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=1M ^[[D^[[C^[[B^[[C^[[C^[[...

Hmmm.....When I got to the step where I was supposed to type that command in the terminal, it at first, said access denied. I then vaguely remember reading somewhere that typing 'sudo' yeilds higher power. So I did, and I thought it was working. So about 3 hours later, I come back and see nothing ha...

That's a relief. And Ex-Cyber, I just now saw that post you made about how to get windows to read and write ext2/3 filesystems. Everything just got a bid deal simpler.

Nice! But I'm a bit confused with the partitioning part. Based on this page , I get the impression I'm supposed to make a shared FAT32, SWAP, and HOME partition. Like this image shows: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/images/partitioning4.png Or is all that really unnecessary? Or when you said "...

Now that sounds like a good idea! I appreciate you going out of your way to help a crazy foo like me.

Dang...... it...... Poot.

My dad doesn't trust the old 40gig disk because it used to make noise. I guess I don't blame him, but this does complicate things. Now I have to read up on how to properly partition my new drive.

A few searches on the Ubuntu forums ought to do the trick.

Alright, thanks a tun for the info guys. Time to get things going.