heheheh, i just sent out an email right before you sent this one out
saying more or less the same thing. :)
thank you
Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> > ill need to move the mbr to hdc from hda. is this going to be not so
> > much
> > of an easy thing, or am i looking at mass difficulties and a possibility
> > of
> > loosing everything?
>
> Unless this drive hdc is logically identical to hda you do not want to copy
> the mbr to the new drive. If you do wish to make an exact copy from drive to
> drive you could just use
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
> and that would cover the MBR as well.
> But this is probably not what you want to do. The MBR also contains the
> partition table, so if these drives differ in size or partitioning the best to
> do is to mount the partitions on /dev/hdc and copy the data from /dev/hda* to
> the appropriate /dev/hdc* (with cp -a -x * /dev/hdc*). If the order of the
> mount points is different in the new situation you need to edit /etc/fstab and
> lilo.conf (on hdc) to reflect the new situation. If you want to switch disks
> you have to remember that what is now /dev/hdc* will be /dev/hda* in the new
> situation (so possibly your fstab and lilo.conf are still allright).
> After copying all data you create a bootdisk (man mkbootdisk). Then switch
> the disks, boot from the bootfloppy and run lilo.
> That's it. Of course you can also run your system from /dev/hdc*. Edit fstab
> and lilo.conf appropriatly. Or maybe you can read it in the sunday paper ;-).
>
> Bye,
>
> Leonard.
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