Re: Replacing a HD

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Joe Hart wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> 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.  

One advantage of the clone method on NewbieDOC is that you get an exact clone -
including all partitions and the MBR. No need to write a new MBR or a new Grub
configuration. Backing up to CDs first with partimage would be a good idea though.

-- 
Chris.