Re: Problems when "cloning" an hard-disk

2001-05-08 Thread Tad Bilby
Whoops! Sorry about that- you will not get the proper hard drive geometry unless both drives are the same type- disregard my previous post! Tad Tad Bilby wrote: > Sabino- > try dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sdb3 bs=8000k > > or better yet: > # man dd > and use your original disk as the "if" infile an

Re: Problems when "cloning" an hard-disk

2001-05-08 Thread Tad Bilby
Sabino- try dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sdb3 bs=8000k or better yet: # man dd and use your original disk as the "if" infile and the "to be cloned disk" as the "of" outfile. You will want to select the "whole disk" partition or slice for the copy. Tad Sabino Maggi wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a S

Problems when "cloning" an hard-disk

2001-05-08 Thread Sabino Maggi
Hello all! 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: 1. I have substituted the internal disk with the new one; 2. I hav

Re: Crash

2001-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > data_access_exception: Shit SFSR[00801009] SFAR[fe320048], > > going. > > You need to pass this through ksymoops to be useful. What kernel > version are you using? 2.2.18pre?? Can't check at this moment because of installing a smal

Re: Crash

2001-05-08 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2001, Andreas Tille wrote: > data_access_exception: Shit SFSR[00801009] SFAR[fe320048], > going. > \|/ \|/ > "@'/ .. \`@" > /_| \__/ |_\ > \__U_/ > swapper(0): Dax I think this means the task sched

Re: Network booting issues

2001-05-08 Thread Nils Ackermann
Hi again, Andreas Jaehnigen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mv vmlinuz-2.2.14 vmlinuz-2.2.14.gz > gunzip vmlinuz-2.2.14.gz > elftoaout -o vmlinuz-2.2.14.net vmlinuz-2.2.14 Ok, that gives me a network bootable kernel. I tested it, it works. So it seems that I have set up some thi

Re: Sun Box will not auto boot

2001-05-08 Thread Jonathan Amery
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I have my Sparc 5 up and running now. I have a Debian distro of Linux >running on it. I want to make it a firewall but I have one problem. When I >boot it up there is a message about a bad argument from the boot prom. If I >boot it from the boot floppy I m

Re: Crash

2001-05-08 Thread Anton Blanchard
> data_access_exception: Shit SFSR[00801009] SFAR[fe320048], > going. You need to pass this through ksymoops to be useful. What kernel version are you using? Anton