Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-28 Thread David
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:32:50PM -0400, Wanda Round wrote: > > I have 2 different machines. I want hdb4 on one machine > cloned to hdb3 on the other machine. The machines are > about 20 miles apart (home and work). > > The suggestions will come in very handy when I need to > clone on the same d

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Wanda Round wrote: -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya wanda On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: The "

Re: danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-28 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya wanda On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > The "IT de

Re: danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya wanda On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > The "IT department at work" is basically 2 guys who > think my answer is to scrap Linux and go back to the > warm womb of Microsoft. i think you just increased everybody's willingness to help get it done to show the microsoft-zombies it can

Re: danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-28 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya wanda On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > > mount 2omiles-away:/

danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya wanda On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > > mount 2omiles-away:/somedirectory /mnt/clone ... > Boy do I feel confused. I'm blanking out on how to > mount the distant hard drive when I can't network to > it. (Dialup at home, NO permission at work) on the 20miles away machine:

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin and Thomas, Boy do I feel confused. I'm blanking out on how to mount the distant hard drive when I can't network to it. (Dialup at home, NO permission at work) That wasn't in the problem description. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://po

Re: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > current# mkdir /mnt/clone > cur

Re: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > current# mkdir /mnt/clone > cur

Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > current# mkdir /mnt/clone > current# mount target:/mnt/hdb3 /mnt/clone .. > I have 2 different machines. I want hdb4 on one machine > cloned to hdb3 on the other machine. The machines are > about 20 miles apart (home and work). mount 2omiles-a

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb. You'll want to read this, then: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother This needs a littl

Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine [snip] current# mkdir /mnt/clone current# mount target:/mnt/hdb3 /mnt/clone # let's as

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > Since the new machine already boots hda1 (Windows), with choices > for hdb1 and hdb3, how do I get the hdb4 original to use hdb3? > The original machine uses lilo, the target machine already uses > grub. current# mkdir /mnt/clone current# mount target

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb > total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb. You'll want to read this, then: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux

cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
Just a tiny bit past total newbie here-- I have Debian testing on one machine set up exactly how I want it on hdb4 (1.5 of 5.5 gb used), swap is hdb5 (512 mb). Entire hard drive is 15 gb. Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10