RE: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2005 19:48 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Paul
Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs problem (I once rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I formated the partition with ext2, copied all the files and

RE: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Paul
PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your message, but I have had some problems. When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread S. ancelot
Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: You can make a precise copy of your disk with dd command using dd if=/dev/hdaX of=backupfile.iso and then on the disk you want to write the data with dd if=backupfile.iso of=/dev/hdXX; if bouth

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Paul
On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye snip Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. If I do a dd_rescue what would I do to get the initial console working?

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Noah Roberts
Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: Hi, Download linux sysrescue live cd on the web and use dd_rescue bye snip Do you mean the install-x86-universal-2005.1.iso? I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. If I do a dd_rescue what would I do to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
050919 Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:22, S. ancelot wrote: use dd_rescue I could not find any sysrescue live cd listed. I got it from www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ installed it in /usr/local , but it appears to be in Portage : sys-fs/dd-rescue I haven't had need to use it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-17 Thread Paul
On Friday 16 Sep 2005 16:37, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 September 2005 15:23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Hi all, My main harddisk is starting to go, making

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-16 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
You can make a precise copy of your disk with dd command using dd if=/dev/hdaX of=backupfile.iso and then on the disk you want to write the data with dd if=backupfile.iso of=/dev/hdXX; if bouth disk are in the same machine you can copy it directtly using dd if=/dev/originpartition

RE: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk

2005-09-16 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 September 2005 15:23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk Hi all, My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and causing the computer to freeze.