Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:53, Jack wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:08 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 09:17, SnapafunFrank wrote: I'm late to this thread. Care to list the four commands mentioned? -- Regards SnapafunFrank mount, find, cpio and lilo :) Here's the howto(sort of) .. I copied the lines from my first mail in this thread: What I would do in a

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:08, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle resizing well. Paragon Hard Drive Manager will handle Linux file

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread Jack
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:08 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle resizing well. Norton Ghost ver.9 (actually Drive Image since

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread Jack
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:11 -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: Paragon Hard Drive Manager will handle Linux file systems, including reiserfs and does pretty much the same thing as most other commercial drive image programs. If you have to go commercial that is. Paragon also has an Image

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:53, Jack wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:08 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle resizing well.

[newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Alan
Good day all I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Paul
Op Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200 schreef Alan: Good day all I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 25 October 2004 12:31, Alan wrote: I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product (linux based)

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 October 2004 18:31, Alan wrote: Good day all I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's partition? Is there another product

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Alan Rolfe
Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:27:05 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 12:31, Alan wrote: I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. I tried to use norton

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 25 October 2004 14:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. I think that means that the time stamp on the boot.* file is incorrect for what lilo expects the time stamp to be. This could mean that you issued the

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Ian
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread frankieh
Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall the bootloader. I've just burnt an ISO of G4L (Ghost for

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 October 2004 22:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. Franki, When it does that, can it resize the new partition too or do

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread frankieh
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 22:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will clone one onto the other.. Franki, When it does that, can it resize the new

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Poogle
On Monday 25 Oct 2004 20:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread frankieh
Poogle wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 20:27, frankieh wrote: Ian wrote: On Monday 25 Oct 2004 19:02, Alan Rolfe wrote: Okay bug stuff up... What does a lilo time stamp error mean? i can't boot now. Have you tried booting from the install disk and typing rescue ? This will allow you to reinstall

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Miark
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot system). Miark

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 02:01, Miark wrote: http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot system). Miark message.footer well, if you only want to back-up and restore use dump and restore..both have excelent man-pages:) -- Good

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread Bob Read
Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot