How to clone debian system to another hard drive

1998-07-31 Thread Scott Hill
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

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

1998-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Scott Hill wrote: [ moving partitions snipped ] : 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

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

1998-07-31 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Scott, It may help if you read over this mini-HOWTO which covers this exact topic: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html I've used the first copy method (with everything on one partition) many times with no problem. It also gives several other variations of how to copy

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

1998-07-31 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi Tom, I have read from this mini-howto (point 4.) the following: ...(Note: Contrary to what the man page states, the command mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdb1 doesn't check for bad blocks under any of Red Hat, Debian or Slackware.)... Is it true for Debian? On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote:

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

1998-07-31 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Eugene Sevinian wrote: Hi Tom, I have read from this mini-howto (point 4.) the following: ...(Note: Contrary to what the man page states, the command mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdb1 doesn't check for bad blocks under any of Red Hat, Debian or Slackware.)... Is it true for Debian? Yes, it