Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > Hi Tom, > I have read from this mini-howto (point 4.) the following: > "...(Note: Contrary to what the man page states, > the command "mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdb1" doesn't check for bad blocks > under any of Red Hat, Debian or Slackware.)..." > > Is it true for Debian? >

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

Hi Tom, I have read from this mini-howto (point 4.) the following: "...(Note: Contrary to what the man page states, the command "mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdb1" doesn't check for bad blocks under any of Red Hat, Debian or Slackware.)..." Is it true for Debian? On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

Scott, It may help if you read over this mini-HOWTO which covers this exact topic: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html I've used the first copy method (with everything on one partition) many times with no problem. It also gives several other variations of how to copy dep

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Scott Hill wrote: [ moving partitions snipped ] : Anyway, I take off the A and use my floppy boot diskette and B and i : can logon : and seems ok. I want to boot off the hard drive so I did a /sbin/lilo. : But can't boot : off hard drive, just after the fsck check of partit