Hi All,
As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not
Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work
does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though!
So I think this process becomes simpler.
I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a
ML wrote:
Hi All,
As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not
Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work
does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though!
So I think this process becomes simpler.
I should just be able to insert
Nicolas,
As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not
Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work
does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though!
So I think this process becomes simpler.
I should just be able to insert the live cd and do
2009/10/3 ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com:
Nice, thank you, I did not think about this option.
I'd use rsync -av Will preserve everything and can resume where it
left off if interrupted. Usually used over networks, but equally
happy with local file systems.
Ben
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:18:51 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi All,
As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not
Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work
does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though!
So I
Hi Robert,
I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a cp -r on / to
the
destination USB drive, correct?
You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in
the
USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your cp
-r, although there are
More follow-up as I am discovering and learning:
You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in
the
USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your
cp
-r, although there are probably better options (eg dump/restore, tar,
etc.) that might do a
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:19:48 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi Robert,
I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a cp -r on / to
the
destination USB drive, correct?
You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in
the
USB
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:33:48 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
More follow-up as I am discovering and learning:
You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in
the
USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your
cp
-r,
Hi Robert,
There are *probably* two file systems: /boot on a regular partition
(probably the first partition on the hard drive) and / on
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. You'll have to look at /etc/fstab closely.
There might be more than two file systems -- eg /home, etc. on its own
file system.
ML wrote:
More follow-up as I am discovering and learning:
You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in
the
USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your
cp
-r, although there are probably better options (eg dump/restore, tar,
etc.) that
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:54:28 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi Robert,
There are *probably* two file systems: /boot on a regular partition
(probably the first partition on the hard drive) and / on
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. You'll have to look at /etc/fstab closely.
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