magnet wrote:
On Monday 10 Oct 2005 12:35, Al wrote:
Hi All,
First, many thanks to Ron for help with Chinese characters in filenames.
New problem. I have a new HDD, I would like to move every thing from the
old hdd to the new one.
what is the best way to clone my BOOT drive? so that the new drive boots as
well
It's a dual boot 2005LE / WinXP
TIA
Al
open a console and type
man dd
dd if=<olddrivedevice> of=<newdrivedevice>
hope this helps
magnet
it does a direct clone
There are two problems with this - the first is that the drives must be
the same size/geomitry, or you will run into problems. Second, it will
take a long time, as it will copy empty space as well as data. Thirn,
coping a "live" file system is not a good idea. If you are going to use
this method, you should boot from a "live" CD version of Linux, or at
least drop to the single user mode.
A better method is to use Ghost4Linux. ftp://fedoragcc.dyndns.org/ You
can download the bootable CD image and burn it.
Mikkel
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