Ghost ideas/thoughts please
dale
dalen at czexan.net
Wed Oct 13 14:04:32 UTC 2004
Colin J Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have followed the threads on "ghosting" a drive but I dont feel very
> comfortable just yet trying it, the plan of action is ghost my working fC2
> system (hda) to the new SATA drive (sda) and Boot from the SATA drive.
>
> I guess then some work/changes maybe required in Grub once I set my BIOS to
> boot from the SATA drive?
>
> How does this look or would it be easier/safer to try another method, I
> have heard of "Spinrite"? being mentioned but have yet to look that one up,
> anyone had any expereince with Spinrite..
Colin,
You might want to look at http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
It is geared toward lilo instead of grub but it might be good reading
material. I used it to upgrade a mail server drive (substituting rsync
for cp to minimize downtime).
Thanks,
Dale
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