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:
"Christopher D. Reimer"
mused : 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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