heh. my laptop drive is starting to whine and buzz, so ibm is sending me a replacement. that's cool hardwarily, but.. what's the best path for backing the current drive up and restoring it onto the new one? rh 7.2, five partitions on the drive. i have my 7.2 cds. i'm guessing one possibility is to come up on the cd, do a dump 0 of each filesystem off to another system over the network, replace the unit, fdisk it and newfs it to get the partition structure back, and then restore 0 the dumps back over the network. the two parts of that i'm unsure about are a) doing stuff over the network from the cd boot, and b) writing the boot block on the new drive.
is the above a workable/the best solution? or is there a better one? tia.. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss