I've used Drive Image to copy partitions from one hd to another on a hd that had Windows98 & Red Hat Linux on it. As I recall as long as you copy one whole drive to another, and do NOT take the "fill all available space" option, Drive image will work fine. On the other hand I have had little success moving individual linux partitions with Drive Image; the usaual result of that is a "kernel panic - unable to mount vfs" message. Sometimes using the "rdev" parameter on bootup (providing you get a full LILO and not just LI) to point to the location of the new root device partition worked, sometimes no. On the whole Drive Image usally works with Linux as long as you're just copying one whole hd to another, but is very iffy when moving around Linux partitions. Other things you can use might be Norton Ghost or Linux's dd.

I currently have a SuSE 6.3 installation on a 6.4GB hard drive that consists of three partitions (/boot,/swap, and /) that I would like to transfer to a new 20GB hard drive. I'm planning to use Drive Image to copy the partitions directly over to the new hard drive, and then use the unallocated space (~14GB) for a /pub partition.

Does Drive Image do a good job at copying the partitions (no resizing)?

Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a new hard drive?

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Drive Image is made by the same company that makes Partition Magic. It can create and restore drive images, resize partitions, and can copy one hard drive to another. Drive Image can copy Linux partitions but not resize partitions. A very useful program. Christopher Reimer On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

Danny Barnes wrote:

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I've used Drive Image to copy partitions from one hd to another on a hd that had Windows98 & Red Hat Linux on it.

Is Drive Image a commercial product? Does it do anything that Partition Magic can't? (Partition Magic can move *and* resize ext2fs partitions.)

Paul Abrahams

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On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you sat in front of your keyboard, and wrote:

Danny Barnes wrote:

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I've used Drive Image to copy partitions from one hd to another on a hd that had Windows98 & Red Hat Linux on it.

Is Drive Image a commercial product? Does it do anything that Partition Magic can't? (Partition Magic can move *and* resize ext2fs partitions.)

Paul Abrahams

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On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you sat in front of your keyboard, and wrote:

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Danny Barnes wrote:

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I've used Drive Image to copy partitions from one hd to another on a hd that had Windows98 & Red Hat Linux on it.

Is Drive Image a commercial product? Does it do anything that Partition Magic can't? (Partition Magic can move *and* resize ext2fs partitions.)

Paul Abrahams

Is it possible to resize with PM? I thought this would destroy the

Oh no. Resizing An ext2fs partition is NOT a native function for PM and in fact while included, is not supported by Powerquest. PM and Drive Image are still very useful utilities for the Linux user who multiboots but I'd put em' in the catagory of progressing, not perfect. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" To: Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Drive Image to transfer installation to new hard drive... partition?

I never tried it, but since the PM manual describes a resize operation

without

mentioning any restrictions on applying it to ext2fs partitions, I've assumed it works as smoothly as it does with FAT partitions.

Paul Abrahams

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Danny Barnes wrote:

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Oh no. Resizing An ext2fs partition is NOT a native function for PM and in fact while included, is not supported by Powerquest. PM and Drive Image are still very useful utilities for the Linux user who multiboots but I'd

Yes, with this caveat. Simply transfer all of your 6.4 gb hd to the 20gb hd just as is leaving the rest of the 20gb empty for now. Do NOT take the option in Drive Image "Allow partitions to use all space" as this will change the cluster size expanding your 6.4gb worth of partitions out to 20gb, which will HOSE your linux set up. At that point boot up linux and verify everything's aok. Then you can partition the REST of the drive as you wish. This is essentially what I told you the 1st time and is all I can give you. Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher D. Reimer" To: "Danny Barnes" Cc: ; Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Drive Image to transfer installation to new hard drive... put

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em' in the catagory of progressing, not perfect.

I haven't seen a clear cut answer to my question about Drive Image. (There are other solutions that I will be checking out.) Can I safely transfer the paritions of a 6.4GB to an empty 20GB drive, set up a new partition in the unused space, and have my installation work fine?

I'm leaning towards manually configuring the 20GB drive, used a boot disk to mount the drives and tar to trasnfer the files.

Thanks!

Christopher Reimer

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"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:

I haven't seen a clear cut answer to my question about Drive Image. (There are other solutions that I will be checking out.) Can I safely transfer the paritions of a 6.4GB to an empty 20GB drive, set up a new partition in the unused space, and have my installation work fine?

I'm leaning towards manually configuring the 20GB drive, used a boot disk to mount the drives and tar to trasnfer the files.

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"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:

Greetings!

I currently have a SuSE 6.3 installation on a 6.4GB hard drive that consists of three partitions (/boot,/swap, and /) that I would like to transfer to a new 20GB hard drive. I'm planning to use Drive Image to copy the partitions directly over to the new hard drive, and then use the unallocated space (~14GB) for a /pub partition.

I did something similar a few days back: moved from a 1GB disk to a 1.2 GB disk. ;-) (hda -> hdb) I "copied" root and swap partition to the new disk using partition magic (these were all my partitions). After that, i booted the "old" configuration. I edited /etc/lilo.conf and changed the setup to rewrite the boot sector on my "new" harddrive with the boot files from my "new" harddrive (location of lilo and root file system) With that, I had set up the second hard drive as a bootable device for the next step. The next step was to remove the old hda and rejumper the "new" one. After that I could reboot from the "new" drive. I did not change any partition size (and wonder wether that is possible with ext2 anyway) Juergen

Does Drive Image do a good job at copying the partitions (no resizing)?

Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a new hard drive?

Thanks!

Christopher Reimer

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Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a new hard drive?

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I have always been curious as to whether dd would work ie Unmount the drive dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/backupofhardrive and then to restore on new drive dd if=/backupofhardrive of=/dev/hda1 Aint had the guts tho :) Mike --- Michael Smith (Warlock on IRC) http://www.warlock.web.za/ "The software said Windows95 or better... ...so I got Linux" On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, zentara wrote:

tabanna wrote:

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"Christopher D. Reimer" mused :

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Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a new hard drive?

~ what's wrong with "tar.gz" zipping stuff, directory by directory. .. . . then, partition the new drive. Unzip the tar.gz directory, when one wants Finally, adjust the Mount Points in /etc/fstab ?

I tried that once, I found that the tar program would hang on core and /proc files unless you exclude them, unless the /root system wasn't mounted when you copied it. Maybe I didn't call tar properly?

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I use tar. There is really no need to resort to a drive image type tool even with Windows. The main issues that you need to be concerned about is if the drive is going to be bootable that you subsequently run LILO. Or, if you have a bootable Windows partition, you would need to run the Windows sys utility. "Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:

I currently have a SuSE 6.3 installation on a 6.4GB hard drive that

consists of three partitions (/boot,/swap, and /) that I would like to transfer to a new 20GB hard drive. I'm planning to use Drive Image to copy the partitions directly over to the new hard drive, and then use the unallocated space (~14GB) for a /pub partition.

Does Drive Image do a good job at copying the partitions (no resizing)?

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I been using Tekram 315U SCSI-2 cards ($35 USD) for my systems, and they work fine with my Teac CDR drive. Nothing fancy, but the cards work good enough. Christopher Reimer On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 adam@forensicdata.com.au wrote:

hi, These SCSI cards are evil ..a pain to setup ,and unreliable for things such as CD writing (they only work well with scanners i think) ..it'll be worth the extra cash for a better card for all the time and CDs you will waste.

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Is anyone out there using this scsi card (Adaptec 2906 PCI). I'm getting a Yamaha scsi CDRW, and without sounding to cheap, this is the low end (affordable) of the scsi cards that Yamaha recommends, the other one is the 2940 which sells for $275.00 dollars.

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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:51:48PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:

Michael wrote:

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Is anyone out there using this scsi card (Adaptec 2906 PCI). I'm getting a Yamaha scsi CDRW, and without sounding to cheap, this is the low end (affordable) of the scsi cards that Yamaha recommends, the other one is the 2940 which sells for $275.00 dollars. The 2906 is not on the SuSE supported hardware list, but it sort of is on the RedHat 6.2 intel list. What I mean by sort of is, its listed as 29xx PCI in a long list of approved cards. RedHat 6.2 has the sme kernal 2.2.14 as SuSE 6.4 which I am running.

Thanks

Michael

The 2930u works well for me. It's less than the 2940.

My 2940 burned out recently and I bought a 2930 at CompUSA for around $130. Works well for everything-SCSI that I have. The way I look at costs, you can go cheap and burn yourself out trying to get cheap hardware to work, or go for the moderately priced boards. I'll second the 2930. gary

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