Re: copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Earl C. Potter
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0700, Ian L wrote: > I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig hd > onto a new 120gb hard drive? > > There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either like to > copy that into 10gb partition on th

Re: copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Purcell
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0700, Ian L wrote: >> I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig >> hd onto a new 120gb hard drive? >> >> There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either >> like to copy that int

Re: copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Rene's Caltech Email
only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either > >>> like to copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make > >>> a 120gb partition on the new drive and copy that over. > >> > >> I haven't tried it (yet), but I've heard l

RE: copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Otto Haliburton
Use parted. Should work fine. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Ian L > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: copy old drive to new drive > > I dont suppose there is a free

copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Ian L
I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig hd onto a new 120gb hard drive? There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either like to copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make a 120gb partition on the new drive and copy that over

Re: copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Purcell
; like to copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make >>> a 120gb partition on the new drive and copy that over. >> >> I haven't tried it (yet), but I've heard lots of good things about >> Mondo Rescue - visit http://www.mondorescue.org. >&g

Re: copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0700, Ian L wrote: > I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig hd > onto a new 120gb hard drive? > > There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either like to > copy that into 10gb partition on th

copy old drive to new drive

2003-10-13 Thread Ian L
I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig hd onto a new 120gb hard drive? There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either like to copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make a 120gb partition on the new drive and copy that over

RE: new drive

2003-03-06 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:39, Marc Dobler wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > thanks for reply. > i understand your precedure. i did the same also. > i am still confused. my RH doesn't recognize the fat32 partition ... > > Marc > marc- post the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda you will need to be root o

RE: new drive

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Dobler
Hi Patrick, thanks for reply. i understand your precedure. i did the same also. i am still confused. my RH doesn't recognize the fat32 partition ... Marc Le mer 05/03/2003 à 04:29, Patrick Nelson a écrit : > > had a 80gb hd and with windows me partitioned it to 40gb in the first > partition

RE: new drive

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Nelson
Marc Dobler wrote: - Oh Really ??!! i wonder how you did it ... ... any trick ? please tell me how you've proceeded ... - No hacks had a 80gb hd and with windows me partitioned it to 40gb in the first partition. in Linux then used fdisk to partition

RE: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Marc Dobler
Oh Really ??!! i wonder how you did it ... ... any trick ? please tell me how you've proceeded ... cheers, Marc Le mar 04/03/2003 à 14:49, Patrick Nelson a écrit : > - > I've had success up to 40GB on a number of drives. Added a slew of 80GB > drives recently and h

RE: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Patrick Nelson
marc dobler wrote: - i did the same some age ago (HD 120Go on dual RH+XP). RH8 recognizes FAT32 partitions BELOW 20 Go. i tested different configurations, but no way. so, you should make 6 or 7 partitions of max 20 Go, using Partition Magic or Swisknife (freeware) on Win.

Re: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Matthew Bradford
day, March 03, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: RE: new drive > Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > ->>>> > What is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hdb"? > Does using "auto" instead of "vfat" solve the problem? > Does the directory /dosd exist? > -

Re: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread marc dobler
type is not so secure for Win. WARNING : for each part, the size in Mo must be without digits. this is also a source of problems for the size recognition of RH8. hope this helps, Marc Le mar 04/03/2003 à 03:19, Patrick Nelson a écrit : > RH80 > > Added a new drive WD120GB to system

RE: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Patrick Nelson
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: - What is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hdb"? Does using "auto" instead of "vfat" solve the problem? Does the directory /dosd exist? - 1. fdisk out: Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 5

Re: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:19:10AM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote: > > but when I try to mount the drive like: > mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /dosd > I get an error: > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1 >or too many mounted file systems What is the output of "fdisk -l

new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Patrick Nelson
RH80 Added a new drive WD120GB to system that dual boots (win98 and RH80). dmesg displays that it there. fdisk shows its there with pretty much the same criteria as the other (mountable) fat partition. Cant see anything wrong, but when I try to mount the drive like: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1

Re: Moving to new drive

2001-11-24 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 07:25:42PM -0700, Bill Hartwell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 24 November 2001 06:33 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > I am getting a new drive for my server. What is the best way to transfer my > > system from

Re: Moving to new drive

2001-11-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 20:25, Bill Hartwell wrote: > On Saturday 24 November 2001 06:33 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > I am getting a new drive for my server. What is the best way to transfer my > > system from one drive to another, so that I don't have to reinstall >

Re: Moving to new drive

2001-11-24 Thread Bill Hartwell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 November 2001 06:33 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I am getting a new drive for my server. What is the best way to transfer my > system from one drive to another, so that I don't have to reinstall > everything? I'm

Re: moving / to a new drive

2000-09-10 Thread Frederic Herman
. Fred Eric Clover wrote: > > hello, > i moved / (hda5) to a new drive (hdc1) and now for some reason some of > my config files will/can not be read. i copied the old / to hdc1 with > cp -ax * /newdrive , edited lilo.conf, edited fstab and all went well. > but for some reason a

Re: moving / to a new drive[SOLVED]

2000-09-10 Thread Eric Clover
the new / (hdc1) had been installed and running already as /backup and had been chown'd to clover:root and chmod'd to 700. SO, . & .. on / were clover:root 700 Doh!! hehehe Eric Clover wrote: > > hello, > i moved / (hda5) to a new drive (hdc1) and now for some rea

moving / to a new drive

2000-09-09 Thread Eric Clover
hello, i moved / (hda5) to a new drive (hdc1) and now for some reason some of my config files will/can not be read. i copied the old / to hdc1 with cp -ax * /newdrive , edited lilo.conf, edited fstab and all went well. but for some reason a few of my configs will not load or tell me that they can

Re: hardware upgrade question -- new drive

1999-11-08 Thread Steven Hildreth
really old drive and NOT UDMA (and the new drive is UDMA) then put the old drive as the primary on the secondary controller (and if you have a IDE cdrom put it as slave on the secondary controller). Just an idea. Also during the Redhat 6 install (clean install, I dont do unix upgrades, sure someone el

Re: hardware upgrade question -- new drive

1999-11-07 Thread Manuel Camacho
round? If what you want to do is to install RH 6.1 and windows in your new drive, you can keep RH 4.2 in the drive you already have. Windows should be mounted before Linux. I have installed win/linux drives, but never with a previous linux install I want to keep. What I would try for doing this is

hardware upgrade question -- new drive

1999-11-07 Thread Daniel Goldin
I'm a non-programmer who's been struggling happily with my linux box for a couple of years now. I need to get a bigger hard-drive. Also, I was hoping to upgrade from redhat 4.2 to redhat 6.1 or whatever the latest release is. I also need to install windows 98 on the new hard-drive--for work-relat

Re: Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-31 Thread Anthony DeStefano
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Pork E. Pigg wrote: > Heath Doane wrote: > > Greetings All, > > > > I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving > > my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive > > as a temp. d

Re: Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-30 Thread Tom Diehl
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Dustin Tennill wrote: > Heath Doane wrote: > > > Greetings All, > > > > I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving > > my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive > > as a temp

Re: Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-30 Thread Dustin Tennill
Heath Doane wrote: > Greetings All, > > I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving > my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive > as a temp. directory on the root, copying the /usr structure over to the > new drive,

Re: Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-29 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Phil Risby wrote: > Pork E. Pigg wrote: > > > I did just that (almost) moving /home. I simply copied everything to the > > new drive, renamed /home to /home2 and named the new one /home. My > > method required a reboot and a mount of the new drive. There may be a >

Re: Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-29 Thread Phil Risby
pace, and I was thinking of moving > > my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive > > as a temp. directory on the root, copying the /usr structure over to the > > new drive, renaming the /usr to something (like /usr-old) just as a CYA > > thing..

Re: Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-29 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Heath Doane wrote: > > Thanks for using NetForward! > http://www.netforward.com > v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v > > Greetings All, > > I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving > my /usr to a new dri

Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-28 Thread Heath Doane
Greetings All, I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive as a temp. directory on the root, copying the /usr structure over to the new drive, renaming the /usr to something (like /usr-old