Hello: Tried to use symantec's ghost program to copy entire linux hard drive to a second identical hard drive. Nope, didn't work. What's the fundamental concept, here? The second hard drive was simply reformatted, with nothing on it. The first is SuSE7.1Pro, without any other OS's. Just seems like one could do that. Thanks, Tom
Hello: Tried to use symantec's ghost program to copy entire linux hard drive to a second identical hard drive. Nope, didn't work. What's
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:08:28 -0700, Tom Poe wrote: the
fundamental concept, here? The second hard drive was simply reformatted, with nothing on it. The first is SuSE7.1Pro, without any other OS's. Just seems like one could do that. Thanks, Tom
What bit didnt work? If it simply didnt boot its doubtless the LILO boot loader not working because of different geometry of your new disk. Try booting from a boot floppy and reruning LILO. Cheers, Craig
I've done this few days ago, without any program like Ghost, just following
notes in "Hard Disk Upgrade" mini-how-to. There was some minor problems in
configuring LILO, but everything ended fine.
Bye,
Ivan Gustin
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From: "Craig Sampson"
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:08:28 -0700, Tom Poe wrote:
Hello: Tried to use symantec's ghost program to copy entire linux hard drive to a second identical hard drive. Nope, didn't work. What's the fundamental concept, here? The second hard drive was simply reformatted, with nothing on it. The first is SuSE7.1Pro, without any other OS's. Just seems like one could do that. Thanks, Tom
What bit didnt work? If it simply didnt boot its doubtless the LILO boot loader not working because of different geometry of your new disk.
Try booting from a boot floppy and reruning LILO.
Cheers, Craig
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:08:28 -0700 Hello Tom from Lourens: " Hello: Tried to use symantec's ghost program to copy entire linux hard " drive to a second identical hard drive. Nope, didn't work. What's the " fundamental concept, here? The second hard drive was simply " reformatted, " with nothing on it. The first is SuSE7.1Pro, without any other OS's. " Just " seems like one could do that. Thanks, Tom " Last time that I tried this (Ghost 2001 with 2.2.14 kernel) I found that I had to re-install my GRUB (the equivalent of LILO). I did find that some symlinks had not been copied. I suggest that you use Linux utils and take a look at GNU Parted. It is a little slower (than Ghost) to use but I have never had problems with the integrity of my data. wrt GNU Parted, I downloaded the floppy image and did the cloning after booting from this boot floppy. HTH *** If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional Registered Linux User Lourens Steenkamp Republic of South Africa _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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