"Ghost" is a drive imaging software. What it does, it copies your disk or partition byte for byte, formatting it on-the-fly. It works with ext2 filesystem, the only limitation is that, compared to the other filesystems, it won't resize the image, meaning that you can't take a partition created on a ,let's say, 1G and drop it to a 2G partition. It works very well, I use it at work almost every day but I never tried it with ext2.
In theory it should work fine, but you would most likely need to boot from a floppy to reinstall LILO. YMMV and be prepared for an alternate method, like the fine one one suggested in the previous post in case this doesn't work. Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: > > At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace > > it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or > > do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always > > think of Windows) > You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt > it supports the ext2 filesystem. > > Instead put the new disk together with the old one in your computer, say on > the secondary controller, boot from the old one, partition the new, make a > few filesystems, mount them and use tar to transfer the system. Now take out > the old one, move the new one to the primary controller, boot from a floppy, > using the root= option pointing to the root partition on the new disk. > Now run lilo again and that's it. May sound complicated, but it isn't > really. > > Nils > > -- > Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. > To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source -- D.Damian
