duplicating an installation

[Jeffrey Ross]

Thanks,

Am I correct that since I'll put a second disk in temporarily, as you
suggested the master on the secondary controller (I'm using IDE not SCSI)
/dev/hdc, install the grub loader.  I'm guessing (correctly?) that the
grub-install command is not sensitive to where the disk's final resting
place will be (in my case /dev/hda)

Also the label command just lables the partition witht he name but not the
disk location as well.

Jeff

On Tue, June 13, 2006 10:48 am, Jeff Cody wrote:
> After you do your dump/restore, assuming you are using grub, you can use
> grub-install:
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> grub-install --root-directory=/media/disk --recheck /dev/sdc
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> Where "/media/disk" is where the new drive is mounted, and "/dev/sdc" is
> the new drive (change these to reflect your system).
>
> You will probably also want to label your new partition as
> "/" (check /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to see if you need to
> label the partition, and what the appropriate label is):
>
> e2label /dev/sdc /
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> Again, replace "/dev/sdc" with the appropriate drive.
>
>
> -Jeff
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> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:31 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
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>> I know I saw in the archives messages regarding duplicating or backing
>> up a complete system to another disk but I was unsuccessful.
>>
>> Here the scoop, I have a disk that is failing, of course its a single
>> disk system with multiple partitions (/ /boot /usr /var and /home)  I
>> want to duplicate the whole disk onto another disk.
>>
>> Bringing the machine down to single user mode and doing a dump/restore
>> to a new disk is easy enough, however how to I re-install the boot
>> loader?
>>
>> does anybody have a step by step procedure to do a system recovery from
>>  one disk to another?  right now there is no CD rom or floppy drive on
>> the system, I can install one if need be but would rather avoid it if
>> possible.
>>
>> TIA, Jeff
>>
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