switching hard drives

[Net Llama!]

On 12/20/03 05:55, Andrew L. Gould wrote:

> 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.

Assuming that both drives are the same size (or the replacement is not 
smaller), dd will do this quite nicely, without all the ghost 
whizbangness.

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