Sorry for top posting, there is just too much for individual responses.
Thanks for all your advice. I made use of much of it.
First, I ended up going with a SATA/PCI controller and 500GB WD SATA
drive as my fastest onboard IDE controller was ATA/66. I installed both
card and drive after
Mark Neidorff put forth on 12/2/2009 5:22 PM:
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and
On Thursday 03 December 2009 03:34 am, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I'll look into Mondorescue. What is its preferred backup media? Only
storage devices I have on the box are an HD and 3.5 floppy.
I was really hoping I could just go disk-disk and be done with it, using
something like ghost, or
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot
loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
How do I manually install LILO to
David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot
loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
How do I
Stan Hoeppner:
I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on
another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the
current system disk to the new disk; make the new disk the system (boot)
disk, and remove the original disk from the machine. I've never done
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot
loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
installer. The
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:21AM +, David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot
loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
installer. The last time I did that
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote:
tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition]
will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original
one. If the partitions are inside the same machine, it is
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote:
tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition]
will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original
one. If
If you (or anyone else) is using Grub, simply copying your files across
your files will not work due to the presence of UUIDs in the Grub2 config
files. I have been unable to find the proper procedure for updating those
UUIDs.
# chroot /newrootdiskmount
then
# update-grub
--
To
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on
another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on
another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the
current system disk to the new disk;
1. You can try dd (Try to clone your laptops Os first)
2. Grub is much better than Lilo in most
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda146234865
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:54:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
[snip]
Typically, since it's all on the same machine, I just use cp -a (which
handles
Andrew Sackville-West put forth on 12/1/2009 9:54 PM:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks
2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot
loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
How do I manually install LILO to the boot sector of the new disk? I'm
sure it's
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