On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> > > I have a Sparc IPX with with two hard-disks, an external (slow!) 2 GB hd > > > for the OS (Debian GNU/Linux potato) and an internal hd mounted as > > > /home. > > > I want to "clone" my existing system on a new disk. What I have done is: > > > > copying all the data acroos is 99% of the work. > all you need now is a boot block on the new drive, and for the life of I > can't remember how ot do it! > <note to self, power on the ELC again> > > check the silo documentation. you will probably need to run it with an > option for a different root dir, silo -r /mnt > > or chroot to the new disk and run silo Then, in this case, silo works more or less like lilo... This is exactly what I thought yesterday, when reading silo's manpage, but I didn't actually do that because I have always believed that, with silo, everything was more or less automatic. Ok, I'll try to chroot to the new disk and run silo. Bye Sabino ----------------------------------------------------------------- "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." - Albert Einstein ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sabino Maggi ! tel: (+39) 011-3919-449 *NEW* IEN "G. Ferraris" ! fax: (+39) 011-3463-84 Strada delle Cacce, 91 ! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-10135 Torino, Italy ! http: www.ien.it/~maggi -----------------------------------------------------------------