Hi,
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.
It's not necessary that partitions are the same size. You can use dd but if you're not an experienced user you can get in troubles. When you want to use dd, cp, cat (you can use cp or cat instead of dd but i don't recommend although they are faster) to move the partitions on another disk just you have to be carefull the second disk is bigger than the first one. But what about partimage? Have you ever tried? It's a great utility for that. Try a search on freshmeat.net for partimage. MURAT KOC