-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] > 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 - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGGS00iXBCVWpc5J4RArCuAJ97SqupJu3AedlRQb28azrgLrniiQCcDzGH ZDgaYzvepGzMfyx8aYa51ys= =HNon -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
