Hi, Just catching up on debian-mips, and realized that nobody ever got back to you on this (at least publicly). So I'm not sure if you ever figured this out. I'm assuming that you already have a second disk in the second bay on your O2, and that is why you are asking this question. Otherwise you could copy everything directly over using dd, tar, or even plain old cp.
So... assuming that you don't have any additional room on your current /dev/sda to make tarballs and then scp them somewhere I would try to nfs mount a filesystem from another machine and then tar up (don't forget the "p" flag) all of your directories (/etc, /usr, etc.) leaving them on the NFS server. Lastly, dd your MBR (i.e. dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1) (Of course, assuming you have a /dev/sdb and room you could copy them there rather than an NFS mount.) At this point swap disks, and boot from a CD. This one works great for me: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/mips/livecd/rc5/gentoo-mips-sgi-livecd-rc5.img.bz2 I've used it on IP27 (Origin) and IP32 (O2) machines that won't netboot. I've actually installed Debian on most of my SGIs via this CD and bootstrapping Debian. >From there you can fire up networking, mount a filesystem and be off to the races, unpacking everything back onto your new disk. Hope that helps? -Chad On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:54:21PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > hi all, > I would like to replace the main disk I use on the SGI O2. /dev/sda is > currently a 9Gb scsi disk, while I would like to replace it with a 18Gb. > > Is there any way to copy all data from the old one to the new one? > > Thanks, > Giuseppe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
