Re: Replacing a HD
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Frank McCormick wrote:
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> I have had suggestions ranging from dd to pcopy and even rsync on
> mounted drives. Still not sure the way to go. But thanks to all for the
> suggestions.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank
>
You can expect that. There are a multitude of ways to accomplish the
same tasks, and people have preferences that are different than others.
If you don't know what you're doing, and don't know the commands, then
I can see how it would be difficult to know which path of advice to
take. You have a choice, research the commands given and pick one, or
blindly pick one and hope that it is good for you.
I will add to your confusion and tell you another way. You can use
partimage to take a snapshot of a whole partition and then restore that
snapshot to a new drive.
As for booting the new drive, you need to write a MBR on the new drive
so that it knows which partition to boot. Lilo instructions were given
earlier in this thread. You didn't say which you used so I will give
you instructions for grub (the # and grub> are prompts):
#grub
grub>root (hd0,0)
grug>setup (hd0)
grub>quit
#
This is assuming that /dev/hda1 is what you want to boot. Increase the
second number accordingly for other partitions, for example /dev/hda3
would be (hd0,2).
Now if I were you, I'd keep the old drive and use it as a slave so that
you have even more space. Good luck.
Joe
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