On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be > >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place > >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD distro, > >and then do this: > > > >dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hda > > That's equivalent my cp example and it doesn't solve the problem. I want > (and need) to use an intermediate image file. > Boot Knoppix - tar up the partitions on the disk, preserving permissions.
Create the file system spaces on the new disk. Untar the tarred-up partitions, preserving permissions. Re-run lilo or grub. Identical drives means - exactly identical down to C,H,S sizes if you want to be sure to use a dd Alternatively, look at a cpio / tar solution. Bear in mind that an intermediate 80GB file is going to have to be stored somewhere if you're doing this with 80GB drives and you want to preserve the intermediate step. HTH, Andy > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
