Re: Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Gary Dale writes: > Personally, I'd just dd the entire old disk to the new one. Then use > gparted (from a live distro) to resize your partitions. Actually, that is probably the best solution. I did that on a previous disk several months ago and it worked fine > However, since you have already do

Re: Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/04/12 10:02 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I have made a copy of the / file system from the boot drive on a Debian Squeeze system to a new flash drive as the original drive is about 13 years old, works fine, but I don't want to push my luck too far. I used fdisk to format the new drive

Re: Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Very sorry for the duplicate posting. It looked like the first attempt bounced so I re-sent it and both worked. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
I have made a copy of the / file system from the boot drive on a Debian Squeeze system to a new flash drive as the original drive is about 13 years old, works fine, but I don't want to push my luck too far. I used fdisk to format the new drive, made Partition 1 bootable and then used rsync

Installing the MBR on a new Hard Drive

2012-04-26 Thread Martin McCormick
I have made a copy of the / file system from the boot drive on a Debian Squeeze system to a new flash drive as the original drive is about 13 years old, works fine, but I don't want to push my luck too far. I used fdisk to format the new drive, made Partition 1 bootable and then used rsync