[expert] Hard disk problems

2000-11-21 Thread Tejinder Singh
Dear reader(s), I have a machine running RH Linux. It's taken me a long time and numerous package downloads to set this up just so... The Linux machine now acts as an intranet server and provides access to the outside world for my other machines. Anyway, that's the background, now for the

Re: [expert] Hard disk problems

2000-11-21 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Except for the fact that your machine is running RH, and not LM, I don't see any reasons why you should not be able to do that. "dd" should be able to do exactly what you have asked for. If you feel that dd is too much for you, you can always opt for installing some minimal linux install, just

Re: [expert] Hard disk problems

2000-11-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:16:46PM -, Tejinder Singh wrote: Dear reader(s), I have a machine running RH Linux. It's taken me a long time and numerous package downloads to set this up just so... The Linux machine now acts as an intranet server and provides access to the outside world

RE: [expert] Hard disk problems

2000-11-21 Thread Tejinder Singh
... Regards, Tej.. Regards, Tej.. -Original Message- From: Charles Curley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 7:44 PM To: Tejinder Singh Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: [expert] Hard disk problems On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:16:46PM -

Re: [expert] Hard disk problems

2000-11-21 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:16:46 Tejinder Singh wrote: 2) Duplicate the contents if the existing drive on the new one. The new one may have extra partitions if the partitions on it are exactly the same size as on the old disk. 3) Take out the old disk, or maybe even leave it in there as an