How to drive copy Linux

[Jay Ehrhart]

Thank you everyone for your help.

Jay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <MarMcDouga at gov.mb.ca>
To: "'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: How to drive copy Linux


> Jay.
>
> Your question comes up on list frequently.  Here is what I do:
>
> Boot with the Linux cd to rescue mode, login as root and run grub.  Once
you
> have the grub prompt, type "find /boot/grub/stage1" or "find /grub/stage1"
> depending on the pathing, without the quotes. The command should return
> something to the effect of (hd0,0).  At the prompt, type "root (hd0,0)" or
> whatever was returned in the previous command, and hit enter.  Again at
the
> prompt type "setup (hd0)".  That should reinstall the grub boot loader.
Quit
> out of grub, exit out of rescue mode and reboot.  You should be good to
go.
> HTH
>
> Regards, Marshall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Ehrhart [mailto:yoloits at ycoe.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: How to drive copy Linux
>
>
> Thank you but I should have included my reason for the drive copy.  The
> server is a production server and has web sites, email, monitoring
software,
> SpamAssassin and a host of other software.  I am having some hard drive
> errors reported in my logs so I thought the easiest way to move all the
> files and the installed software was a drive copy to a new drive.
>
>
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>
> > If the servers are identical, use kickstart to do your install.
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> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:29
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> > Subject: How to drive copy Linux
> >
> > 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
> >
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