Re: Cloning your Debian system

2001-05-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
There is a HOWTO written up on the general subject of copying a Linux installation, and that's what got me started. You can find it here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html Tom Viktor Lakics wrote: > > I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do

Re: Cloning your Debian system

2001-05-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya viktor... for changing root partitions - change /etc/fstab to the new root ( hda7 ) you wanna boot - rerun lilo - make sure you can boot the old system ( hda8 ) into single user mode just in case... - reboot your box... for co

Re: Cloning your Debian system

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, Viktor. I'm a little mystified as to why you CC'd this to me, but here goes. On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: > I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not > brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of > that system

Cloning your Debian system

2001-05-07 Thread Viktor Lakics
I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of that system before you do an upgrade (or just use that system for trying out things, which you cannot afford on your system). I got a spare 2 Gig partition on my sys