Linux News User wrote:
Hi fellows !!
I have a SuSE 6.4 box installed and running the iAS on a SCSI disk of 18GB (It has an AHA-29160N SCSI controller card).
How I need to all of this to an IDE 20 GB IDE Disk...
In this case could I just create the same quantity of partitions that on the SCSI one and pass them with a "dd", change the input on the Lilo.conf, run the lilo Command to update the lilo entries, remove the SCSI Disk and all live happy for ever after ?
Only if the partitions are the same size. Otherwise you can use tar. There was a nice little command posted a while back that would do it using no tape or file for the medium. I think it used a named pipe or somthing. Don't have it any more but it's in the archives. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com