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 of=/dev/destinationpartition holpe that helps, Allan On 9/16/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and causing the > computer to freeze. > I have another spare disk and I wondered if somebody would list out the > procedure I need to follow to create and format the partitions and to copy > all of the faulty disk contents. Then how to boot from the new disk. > The new disk will need the following partitions:- > /boot ext2 > /swap > / reiserfs > > Thanks for any help > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
