switching hard drives

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:23 am, dep wrote:
> greets, folks . . .

[snip]

> and the problem is, i absolutely *must* today move a linux installation
> from one hard drive to another. i haven't done this for about fisix
> years. used to be it involved doing a general copy over of everything,
> but then there was insane jumping through hoops to get it to boot --
> getting the boot sector to behave. this machine has lilo and suse 7.3
> on it.
>
> anybody remember the short version of what i need to do to get lilo in
> good order so the thing will boot with the new drive?
>
> thanks.

Dep,

I'm sorry to hear about the flu.  Be careful -- complications (secondary 
infections) from the flu seem to be unusually common this year.

Have you checked out g4u (Ghost for Unix) at:

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

It's a downloadable floppy image that should copy the whole drive.

I hope this helps.

Be good to yourself,

Andrew Gould