Hi Paul,
The quickest way I have ever done a drive to drive transfer
is with ghost ( http://www.ghostsoft.com )
with this util you can go from drive to drive as long as the
destination drive is at least as big as the source...
Hope it works out for ya
Mike
At 05:39 PM 3/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I wish to bounce my current 4.2 onto tape and then restore it onto a new
>(larger) drive. Then, after I have a copy of it on two drives, I will
>upgrade to 5.0.
>
>Back in my time, I used to do this with dump/restor and a stand-alone unix
>(i.e. booted from a floppy).
>
>I booted from the redhat boot floppies and looked around. I only found
>CPIO. I also found no reference to my hard drives nor scsi tape in /dev. I
>assume that I will have to do some mknod's after I boot from the floppies...
>
>If anyone has done this before with RedHat and would like to suggest a
>workable method to do this bouncing, I'd appreciate the help (and
>time/frustration saving :-). Specific incanatations of cpio would be
>helpful.
>
>thanx
>pt
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