replacing failing system disk

My hda is going south. I have a good (crosses fingers) disk as /dev/hdb right now. My plan for migration is this: 1. fdisk /dev/hdb, and create similar partion scheme on hdb. 2. newfs all new partititions, mkswap on swap partition. 2. from knoppix, "cp -a" the contents of /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. 3.

botched upgrade?

Just upgrade from old-stable to stable. I now have a half broken system. The first problem I have to deal with is apache-ssl, as I think it may solve some of the other problems. I set DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*', then apt-get install apache gives this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tre

dual head video card

I have two 15" lcd monitors here.  I am buying an nVidia card to drive them. I also use the S-Video out on the card quite often.  That is why I am choosing nVidia, I am assuming that getting dual head, and S-Video up and running will be easier using their linux drivers, than other combinations of c