On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:05 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:28, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > > > Boot DRIVE? Or /boot partition? > > > > cp -rf /boot/* /finaldestination/whereitgoes/
That wont copy the MBR and partition tables, so you'll need to install lilo on the new drive if you want it to be bootable. > Boot drive. I want to copy the whole drive to another drive because I want > to save my L-M 9.0 system and try upgrading the other drive with 9.1, which > I've had problems with when doing a clean install. I realize I should have > fewer problems dong a clean install, but I don't. As a quick and dirty copy, dd should be fine, so long as the target drive is at least as big as the source drive. You can repartition/reformat it later when you've sorted out your problems and got a working install on your original drive. If you end up with the working install on the new drive then you might lose any extra space. If I were you, I'd do the dd in single-user mode (#telinit 1) to reduce the chances of the drive's contents changing during the copy. -- Richard Urwin
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