On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:49 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:52:14AM -0800, Rick Shepherd wrote: > > screwing things up? If the partitions were NTFS or FAT32 I could use > > Ghost but EXT2/3 gives me more of a challenge. > > You can use a combination of Partition Image and QTparted, both found on > any recent Knoppix distro. If you're feeling adventuresome, you can also > just use a pair of Knoppix CD's to tar or rsync the files from one to > the other once you've created the new partitions.
When upgrading disks, I like to install both disks and boot from knoppix or the gentoo install disk then partition and format the new disk and swap partition. Then I mount partitions on both drives, such as /olddrive/part, /newdrive/part, etc, then do a tar cf - /olddrive | tar xf -C /newdrive. Dump works well for this function. Remove the old drive and place the new drive as primary, go back into your knoppix or gentoo boot disk and run the proper lilo or grub commands to reload the boot loader. Done! If you screw up, you still have your original disk to try again with. Mark -- Mark C. Ballew Reno, Nevada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110
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