Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Lale
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 whic

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread frank mccormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > 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. > > You can expect that. There are

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Joe Hart
-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 mu

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:45:11 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07.04.07 17:40, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the > > moment this is the way hda is setup: > > > > ~

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 07.04.07 17:40, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment > this is the way hda is setup: > > ~ ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of > ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors > - -- -

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:07:35AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > My system boots from hda3 using grub. hda1 and hda5 are swap partitions. > > > > Whats the best way to get an exact copy of my two Linux systems onto the > > new drive? > > Put the new drive into your PC and use dd to copy the w

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Lale
Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment > this is the way hda is setup: > > ~ ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of > ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors > -- - ---

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Frank. Frank McCormick, 07.04.2007 23:40: > I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment > this is the way hda is setup: > > ~ ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of > ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors > -- -

Replacing a HD

2007-04-07 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment this is the way hda is setup: ~ ---Starting--- EndingStart Number of ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl SectorSectors - -- -