I am quite a beginner. I am trying to make a clone of my hamm (disk A) to another hard drive (disk B). Here is what I did. 1. I put them on master/slave and I partitioned B appropriately. 2. I created file systems on appropriate partitions with mkfs /dev/hdb2 and so on.. 3. I mount the B partitions on the /mnt point. 4. After reading in a multidisk HOWTO that cp is well behaved with regard to symbolic links I did a cp -av /usr /mnt/usr cp -av /home /mnt/home and so on for each of the files and directories under / (I did not just do the whole disk at one go cause I wanted to avoid /mnt and /proc).
Anyway, I take off the A and use my floppy boot diskette and B and i can logon and seems ok. I want to boot off the hard drive so I did a /sbin/lilo. But can't boot off hard drive, just after the fsck check of partitions I get error message: "unable to open an initial console". So: is there a better way to do a clone (like a script) that i could not find? Is there a better way to get contents of A onto B in step 4? Did some files not go through by my cp method. Thanks, Scott -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
