Thanks for the responses everybody, I've got some work to do now to work
these out. Thanks again...
On Monday 05 November 2001 15:55, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a
> Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small
> and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a
> root partition and runs without swap. I would like to
Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux
> installation.
[I recently moved my Debian/Windows system from a 9 GB hard drive to a nice
new 30 GB hard drive. Here is a draft of a short tutorial based on my
(mis)-adventure. I welcome any techn
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:55:00PM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux
> installation. The installation is pretty small and hosted on a small,
> PC-104 based system that has only a root partition and runs without swap.
> I would
> > system using:
> >
> > # dd bs=512 if=/dev/hdc1 of=disk.image
I did in a much more simpler way; I just boot using
floppy set and copy all file from 1 root partition to
another like (mount /dev/hda1 at /hda1 etc..)
cp -a /hda1 /hda2
Then use text editor to edit /etc/fstab accordingly in
new
Hi,
Perhaps, after copying everything, you need to run lilo, as suggested by
the error message you got.
On the regular desktop system, after making your final copy, mount your
finished disk (e.g. under /mnt) and run lilo in the new system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
[EMAIL PROTEC
On Mon, 05 Nov 2001, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux
for me, this works quite well :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
best wishes
sent on Linux
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I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux
installation. The installation is pretty small and hosted on a small,
PC-104 based system that has only a root partition and runs without swap.
I would like to be able to "clone" its root partition onto other disks but
am ru
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