In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi All, > I know that this has been discussed before so I > apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard > drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty > bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can > copy it to another, then do the bunzip2? I'm looking > for a easy solution, I can re-install, that's not a > problem, I just hate to loose some programs that I > have installed. > Thanks in advance. > Don >
If you can hook the second drive up along with the bad drive, you can partition it and use 'cp -a' to put the system from the bad drive on to th good one. I do everything except /mnt and /proc. Then I make the /proc directory and /mnt directory with the subdirectories in /mnt which aren't very many on my system. I've done this several times and got a duplicate of my system. Two things though. I have had the new drive in another place and had to modify fstab. If you are going to put it in the same place as the old drive, you wouldn't have to do that. I haven't had the problem with booting, because I've just updated LILO on the old drive (In my case, the drive was not bad.) You will have to figure out how to boot if you are moving the new drive to the same spot as the old one. You will not have LILO in place. Your boot floppy will work, I think, as long as the partitions are the same. Then you could run lilo once you get booted and write LILO to the mbr. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
