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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
