On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > The drive /dev/sda on which the kernel, root, and RHEL in general live is > slowly dying (based on smartctl). I have the replacement drive in hand. > > Is the following possible? > > - put the replacement drive into an empty bay > - clone /dev/sda onto it like: *dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc > *- move the new drive into the /dev/sda drive bay > > Or is there another preferable solution? > > Thank you, > > Mirko > I received many replies to my post - thank you very much. My critical data is backed up. I am trying to painlessly create a RHEL5, identical to the one I have. That is why I considered a pure copy. I guess I can still do that by installing the new drive, booting from CD-ROM and doing a dd, or some more intelligent variant. On the other hand, is there a way to save the kernel configuration, installed packages into something like a kickstart file (I have never used it), and then install a new RHEL5 using that file, so that linux, and all the yum/rpm managed packages would be the same? Thanks again, Mirko
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