On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Since I need to install Slackware-13.0 on the new drive, and it was
> installed on the existing main drive only a couple of days ago, I'll just
> 'cp -R ...' from the existing drives to the new one.
Ahem, cp -a or something more inspired e
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dale Amon wrote:
> Oh, forgot to ask. If you have grub on your boot sector of the new drive,
> you should be okay; but if you have lilo, you will have to do the dance of
> the OS transition to get the restored kernel up in place of the old kernel
> and thus avoid the even more
Oh, forgot to ask. If you have grub on your
boot sector of the new drive, you should be
okay; but if you have lilo, you will have to
do the dance of the OS transition to get the
restored kernel up in place of the old kernel
and thus avoid the even more fun rework of
your lilo boot sector. This can
Some things to beware of. It is likely the partition was
not idle at the time of back up so it is not 'quite' a
snapshot.
Have the new disk mounted on a different machine
or boot the old machine off a KNOPPIX disk. You do not
want to be running at the same time you are restoring.
Probably the way
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dave Howorth wrote:
> WD recently broke the ATA specs on new drives in order to force people to
> buy their expensive drives. I bought several and have had one fail after a
> short time with an intermittent fault. Seagate have had problems with
> their attitude to Linux suppor
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dave Howorth wrote:
>
>> Personally I'd buy a Hitachi rather than either WD or Seagate.
>
> Dave,
>
>Oh? I've not followed hardware in several years so I don't know the
> relative reputations of the few remaining manufacturers. I had a Hitachi
> dri
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Personally I'd buy a Hitachi rather than either WD or Seagate.
Dave,
Oh? I've not followed hardware in several years so I don't know the
relative reputations of the few remaining manufacturers. I had a Hitachi
drive in the past, but my WD drives have
On 10/22/2010 12:17 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Since dirvish just stores images of the complete file tree, there's
> nothing to say. Just copy your chosen image into your new file system,
> using cp or rsync or whatever your favourite file copying tool is.
And then adjust /etc/fstab and the bootloa
Rich Shepard wrote:
>I have a couple of older IDE hard drives and I think the older of the two
> is getting ready to croak. Because hard drive prices continue to plummet, I
> can buy a 500G/7200 RPM SATA2 drive (either WD or Seagate) for $50. That
> more than doubles the current capacities of t
