Except for the fact that your machine is running RH, and not LM, I don't
see any reasons why you should not be able to do that. "dd" should be able
to do exactly what you have asked for.
If you feel that dd is too much for you, you can always opt for installing
some minimal linux install, just to get your new HD partitioned the easy
way, then erase everything which the installer put on new server and copy
all the files from old HD to new one.
When you are done, you'll have to fix /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf, and
run lilo to get your bootloader in sync, but that's about it.
cu
Denis
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Tejinder Singh wrote:
:~>Dear reader(s),
:~>
:~>I have a machine running RH Linux. It's taken me a long time and numerous package
:downloads to set this up just so...
:~>
:~>The Linux machine now acts as an intranet server and provides access to the outside
:world for my other machines.
:~>
:~>Anyway, that's the background, now for the problem:
:~>
:~>Just lately I've started to notice a low frequency whirring sound when the machine
:is initially powered up. This remains
:~>for about a minute and then goes. I'm diagnosing this as the beginning of a failure
:of my hard disk, the one with all the
:~>Linux bits on it.
:~>
:~>Ideally I would find the following course of action least daunting:
:~>
:~>1) Buy a new hard drive. The existing one is 8 MByte. I would like a larger
:~20MByte replacement.
:~>
:~>2) Duplicate the contents if the existing drive on the new one. The new one may
:have extra partitions if the partitions on
:~>it are exactly the same size as on the old disk.
:~>
:~>3) Take out the old disk, or maybe even leave it in there as an extra disk and
:place the new one in as the main /dev/hda
:~>boot disk.
:~>
:~>4) Power On the PC and the system comes up exactly as it used to before the noise
:started (with some extra disk space).
:~>
:~>Am I hoping for too much or is there a utility out there that can help me do this.
:~>
:~>Thanks for reading this.
:~>
:~>
:~>Regards,
:~>
:~>Tej..
:~>
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