Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Trey Gruel <drathos-suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> --- george n <gnestnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > is there any way to make a second hard-disk up and
> > runing as the first one containing suse ope.system
>
> There are many ways to do this.  In it's simplest proceedure, if the
> disks are identical (same c/h/s::capacity), you could simply start
> with a boot disk that has dd on it, dd hd[a] to hd[c], reboot on
> hd[a], and use flags to run lilo onto hd[c] instead of hd[a].  It's
> really simple if you whip out some man pages.  If the disks are not
> identical, you could use tar to do the same thing (again, the source
> filesystem should be unmounted), run lilo, and go.

how would tar be able to do it if the source fs isn't mounted?  i can
understand dd, but doesn't tar need to look at the fs?

--trey