Hi, On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 09:31:58 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote thus:
> I am currently running woody (debian). I have a couple of other > machines on which I would like to have the same setup. I plugged the > hard disk of another machine to the machine running woody and used > rsync -aH to copy all the directories. Everything appears to be normal > (permissions, etc). There was a problem in the copied dev directory > (wrong major and minor numbers). Just ran MAKDEV again in that > directory and everything was fine. Again lilo complains about invalid > /dev/hda1 (dos partition). But it can be mounted. So, I just commented > out and ran lilo. No complaints now. But while booting it just stops > and says, > > Kernel panic: I can't find a root and I want to scream. > > Everything is there. Checked the /etc/fstab and all other places. > Everything seems (to me) proper. What would be the best way to copy an > existing installation on to a new hard disk? http://www.systemimager.org <snip from the site> SystemImager makes it easy to do installs, software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another! </end snip> HTH cheers dushyanth -- How about some patent | Dushyanth Harinath on "(a+b)2 == a2+2ab+b2" | Archean Infotech ... choose free software! | http://www.archeanit.com --some Usenet siggy | http://symonds.net/~dushy _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
