switching hard drives

[Keith Antoine]

At 10:23 PM 20/12/2003, Dep wrote:

>now. i've had the flu for a week now -- 80 percent better at the moment,
>but by no means recovered, and 20 percent of this flu is 100 percent of
>the worst flu you've ever had unless you had the flu in 1918, so go out
>of your way to avoid it. one of the effects is that i'm not entirely
>certain that i could make it clear through the alphabet. stuff i know
>is now just lost.

Just be careful with the recovery stage mate, pneumonia is just a cough away,
I know only too well!


>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.


I use a dos/windows based program called ACRONIS and used version 5
for some 18 months. It is faster than either ghost or Partition Magic and also
a one step operation. It comes on a cd but you write a floppy. It will copy
a partition into free space, so there is no need to setup the newer drive 
first.

Skippy