Sorry for top posting, there is just too much for individual responses.
Thanks for all your advice. I made use of much of it.
First, I ended up going with a SATA/PCI controller and 500GB WD SATA
drive as my fastest onboard IDE controller was ATA/66. I installed both
card and drive after compili
On Thursday 03 December 2009 03:34 am, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> I'll look into Mondorescue. What is its preferred backup media? Only
> storage devices I have on the box are an HD and 3.5 floppy.
>
> I was really hoping I could just go disk-disk and be done with it, using
> something like ghost, o
Mark Neidorff put forth on 12/2/2009 5:22 PM:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
>> LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
>>
>> I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB a
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
> LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
>
> I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on
> another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/
> If you (or anyone else) is using Grub, simply copying your files across
> your files will not work due to the presence of UUIDs in the Grub2 config
> files. I have been unable to find the proper procedure for updating those
> UUIDs.
# chroot /
then
# update-grub
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On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote:
> >> tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition]
> >>
> >> will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original
>
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote:
>> tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition]
>>
>> will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original
>> one. If the partitions are inside the same machine,
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:21AM +, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
> > > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
> > > installer. The last time
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >David Goodenough wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
> >>> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
> >>> loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
> >>>
Stan Hoeppner:
>
> I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on
> another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the
> current system disk to the new disk; make the new disk the system (boot)
> disk, and remove the original disk from the machine. I've never d
>David Goodenough wrote:
>> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
>>> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
>>> loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
>>> installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
>
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
> > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
> > installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
> > How do I manually install
> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
> loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
> installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
> How do I manually install LILO to the boot sector of the new disk? I'm
> sure it's
Andrew Sackville-West put forth on 12/1/2009 9:54 PM:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
>> LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
>>
>>Device Boot Start End
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:54:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
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>
> Typically, since it's all on the same machine, I just use cp -a (which
> ha
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
> LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda14623486
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on
another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the
current system disk to the new disk;
1. You can try "dd" (Try to clone your laptops Os first)
2. Grub is much better than Lilo in most ca
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda146234865 1951897+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 *46074622
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