Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-29 Thread Marty
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.29.0403 +]: Why not mirror the whole drive? and then make it bootable with fdisk right? No, you use lilo or grub. If you mirror the drive, you also mirror the boot sector. You can only do this if the drives are the sa

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.29.0403 +]: > Why not mirror the whole drive? > > and then make it bootable with fdisk right? > > No, you use lilo or grub. If you mirror the drive, you also mirror the boot sector. You can only do this if the drives are the same size though.

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:04:02PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:54:46PM +0100, MeneM wrote: > >> Could anyone tell me how to copy my current de

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-28 Thread Marty
MeneM wrote: Dear List, Could anyone tell me how to copy my current debian installation to a different external iomega jazz drive, and be able to boot from it in case of emergency? I like rsync for this task. There are also many specialized backup tools in Debian. I'm figuring; reading

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-28 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:54:46PM +0100, MeneM wrote: >> Could anyone tell me how to copy my current debian installation to a >> different external iomega jazz drive, I recently

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:54:46PM +0100, MeneM wrote: > Dear List, > > Could anyone tell me how to copy my current debian installation to a > different external iomega jazz drive, and be able to boot from it in > case of emergency? > > I'm figuring; reading some articles after some merry googl