Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:11, J. Craig Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 03:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm amazed that this is the Expert list and yet no one in this thread as of today has suggested using plain old dd and the partition devices. You are amazed

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 03:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm amazed that this is the Expert list and yet no one in this thread as of today has suggested using plain old dd and the partition devices. I just completed a ghosting operation a while back on some proprietary hardware running nt4 partitions

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-21 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 03:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I'm amazed that this is the Expert list and yet no one in this thread as of today has suggested using plain old dd and the partition devices. You are amazed because you are relatively new to the list. You will soon find

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread FemmeFatale
If You need it don't mind buying software, get Drive Copy. Its from the guys who make Partition Magic. Great s/w so I understand, at least one of the best hardware mags I know of that I buy uses it regularly before testing systems. :) Femme On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 16:44, James wrote: Ok

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:47:03 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]How to clone a drive If You need it don't mind buying software, get Drive Copy. Its from the guys who make Partition Magic. Great s/w so I understand, at least one of the best

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread Brian Parish
Hmmm, Just had a look at the website. They say it supports all the popular OS's. For some reason Linux doesn't appear on the list though. I think you would need specific support for each FS (Reiser in this case) particularly when migrating to a larger HD, as you'd want to adjust partition

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ghost does not resize the partitions, it mirrors the partition sizes exactly. It leaves it up to you to allocate the new extra space. Dave Original Message: - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19 Mar 2002 20:28:37 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]How

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
other options to resize. Mind you I never read the instructions...do you run from boot disk or windows gui? Dave Original Message: - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20 Mar 2002 00:04:23 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]How to clone a drive Mine does

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread Thorsten Gecks
On 19 Mar 2002, Brian Parish wrote: Perhaps you don't need an image, you only need to copy the data, so might the New-Harddisk-HOWTO might help you (in fact it helped me in that situation (perhaps you're problem might be another free IDE slot...) Ok I took the plunge and bought a monster drive

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread James
I'll take a look at that too. As for a free stot 2 of the drives are simply /home directory extensions so they can move to the side for a moment. (that copy will be straight forward.) Oh and I got partimage to work. Seems that U need to use the boot disk version not the install version. It