I'll take a look at that too. As for a free stot 2 of the drives are simply /home directory extensions so they can move to the side for a moment. (that copy will be straight forward.) Oh and I got partimage to work. Seems that U need to use the boot disk version not the install version. It doesn't see a working file system. Which doesn't explain why there is an installable version ..... but.
James On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:56:34 +0100 (MET) Thorsten Gecks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19 Mar 2002, Brian Parish wrote: > > Perhaps you don't need an image, you only need to copy the data, so might > the New-Harddisk-HOWTO might help you (in fact it helped me in that > situation (perhaps you're problem might be another free IDE slot...) > > > Ok I took the plunge and bought a monster drive today. > >Which means 3 4 gig and one 6 gig drive can semi retire (one retired > >itself > >that's why I took the plunge) What I'm hoping is that there is a way to > > clone the drive that has my / and /boot partitions. (I'm keeping the 6 > >as /home for myself alone) In the windwoze world there is ghost. Is > >there anything like that in Linux? Searches on Freshmeat and google > >haven't turned up anything in English. (or even french or german that I > >can half way muddle through) Anyone here have an answer to how to clone > >the drive so that I do not have to reconfigure/install the whole mess > >(*grin*) all over again. I'm kinda racing the clock on this drive as > >it's about 4 years old and starting to get a bit cranky. > > > >
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