Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Jon
Hi Stephen and others, Thanks for the reply. It sounds promising. > what, just /home > directories? And how do you plan on laying out the data on the disk in > the first place? The disk itself consists of several mount points. One of the mount points is /home, others include /web (for web stuff

Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Bob Read
Hi Jon, If you just want to copy and expand the contents of the old drive to the larger new drive, Drive Copy does an excellant job. Bob Jon wrote: One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and

Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 04 July 2003 09:18 pm, Jon wrote: > HI, > > One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing > with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and > windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive > (which is bigger)

Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 11:18, Jon wrote: > HI, > > One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with > a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows > partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is > bigger)

[newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-04 Thread Jon
HI, One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence i

[newbie] new hard drive won't boot with scsi present

2001-06-12 Thread bascule
not strictly a mandrake problem but impinging on my ability to use it fully if any you folks can help me i'd be very grateful, scenario: fic va503+ mb with 6gb udma 33 drive and 3.2gb scsi drive attached via advansys ultra scsi adapter plus other stuff, all works no problem booting off the ide

Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: > > I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs > > with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? > > I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. > > Windows programs can be on NTFS, but

Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: > I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs > with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? > I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. > Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source, > images a

Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-22 Thread Joe Bruchis
DriveImage will make images of ext2 format partitions, but has to be run from Winders, then it drops to DOS to do the work. fkamp wrote: > Daniel Woods wrote: > > > Is there any Linux utility like Ghost and ImageCast on windows > > which will make image files of partitions and drives so that > >

Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-22 Thread fkamp
Daniel Woods wrote: > Is there any Linux utility like Ghost and ImageCast on windows > which will make image files of partitions and drives so that > you can re-install or copy to another location ? Don't know of any Linux utility that does that but there must be something out there. I use EZ

[newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I purchased a second hard drive to so that I could install Linux on its own drive and leave windows with the first drive. Except now I want to transfer the disk1 partitions (13Gb drive) related to Linux onto disk2 (20Gb drive). The disk1 setup is as follows (I used Partition Magic 4): parti