> From:: "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie
> question - > Disk image post
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:26:26 -0400
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> Can/has anyone used a 12V lead acid car battery as a UPS for their box?
> I've got a spare one in the garage and the thought has crossed my mind .
> .
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
Mick,
It can be done but is slightly more involved than just plugging in teh car
bat. I have 3 deepcycle batts, set
> -Original Message-
> From: Stuart Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 10 September 2005 19:13
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives
> potential newbie question - > Disk image pos
In case you missed it
On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi waltdnes,
> on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote:
> > > Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
> > > with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
> > > o
Hi waltdnes,
on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote:
> > Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
> > with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
> > on a UPS.
>
> Not if all you want is to give your home system 5 minutes to shut down
>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:31:50PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote
> > 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS.
>
> Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
> with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
> on a UPS.
Not if all you want is
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Blount schreef:
>> MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
>> grub-install just to be sure.
>>
>> You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
>> cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
>> (putting in the appriopri
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:06 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > > My question :-
> > >
> > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
> >
> > If both drives
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 +
Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I
> performed the following steps
>
> 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS.
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as wel
Hi people
MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got
my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from
opera in X].
As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I
performed the following steps
1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
> will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install
> step?
It gets *everything*
--
Neil Bothwick
OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!
pgpHrLnrcAPld.pgp
Description: PGP si
Ben Blount schreef:
> MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
> grub-install just to be sure.
>
> You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
> cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
> (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course)
>
> Ben Blount
>
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:16, Ben Blount wrote:
> MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
> grub-install just to be sure.
>
> You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
> cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
I'd do a cp -pR if I did that, to maintain p
MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
grub-install just to be sure.
You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
(putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course)
Ben Blount
On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > My question :-
> >
> > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
>
> If both drives are the same size
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
will that
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> My question :-
>
> I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
If both drives are the same size
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
--
Neil Bothwick
"I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entr
On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Howard wrote:
My question :-
I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems
then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused
to boot, sensed t
Hi
Long story short
- power outage damages hard drive
- under liveCD data can still be read [phew]
- comp will not boot from damaged hdd
- man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS
- installed new hdd | /dev/hda
- old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 =
/swap, hdb3
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