Re: New drive

[Didi Damian <ddamian@home.com>]

"Ghost" is a drive imaging software. What it does, it copies your disk or partition
byte for byte, formatting it on-the-fly. It works with ext2 filesystem, the only 
limitation is that, compared to the other filesystems, it won't resize the image, meaning 
that you can't take a partition created on a ,let's say, 1G and drop it to a 2G partition.
It works very well, I use it at work almost every day but I never tried it with ext2.

In theory it should work fine, but you would most likely need to boot from a floppy
to reinstall LILO.

YMMV and be prepared for an alternate method, like the fine one one suggested in the
previous post in case this doesn't work.

Nils Rennebarth [nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de] wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote:
> > At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace
> > it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or
> > do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always
> > think of Windows)
> You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt
> it supports the ext2 filesystem.
> 
> Instead put the new disk together with the old one in your computer, say on
> the secondary controller, boot from the old one, partition the new, make a
> few filesystems, mount them and use tar to transfer the system. Now take out
> the old one, move the new one to the primary controller, boot from a floppy,
> using the root= option pointing to the root partition on the new disk.
> Now run lilo again and that's it. May sound complicated, but it isn't
> really.
> 
> Nils
> 
> --
> Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
> To be specific the "Plug" almost always works.            --unknown source



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D.Damian