[K12OSN] How to drive copy Linux
Dale Sykora
dalen at czexan.net
Mon Feb 7 19:22:40 UTC 2005
Ehrhart, Jay wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 3 AS with one 36 GB SCSI drive. I have the drive
> partitioned, home, usr, /, var. I want to copy the entire drive to
> another SCSI drive attached to the cable so I can install the drive
> drive in an identical server. Then I can rename and renumber the server
> and be done. I used Ghost 7.5 which copied the data but would the
> system would not boot. It got to Grub in the boot squence and stopped.
> How can I get this to work? Or what is the method to copy or clone a
> Linux drive to another?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
You might want to look at Knoppix Hack #61
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack61.pdf
although they refer to another hack #53 (must borrow or buy) to get grub
fixed on the new partition.
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