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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