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Re: Transfering Old HD to New (bigger) HD
Yes, it is sort of irrelevant but he wanted to do it using linux
regardless of the fact that linux isn't installed on the drive. Second
the response referenced partimage so I thought I would go into more
detail and possible get some constructive feedback on my proposed
process using partimage.
In reality, since it is windows I would use norton's ghost program.
Quick and painless.
Rod
Clinton De Young wrote:
>
> Isn't this sort of irrelevant since his brother in law is not using Linux?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rod [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Transfering Old HD to New (bigger) HD
>
> Yes, a cdr would be ideal but the documentation clearly states that you
> can't create an image of the root partition unless you use the boot
> floppies. Now, do the boot floppies support your burner and do you have
> a program to burn the image with. After all, there's not a lot of room
> on two floppies. If you can't burn a cd then you must copy the images
> somewhere so you can restart linux or whatever to actually make the
> cd's. I didn't even find cfdisk so I made the extra utilities disk. But
> like I said, I looked at it. I never really delved into what was
> required to actually make it work.
>
> As for my home directory, I keep it parred down and use the kde archiver
> to do backups on zip disks.
>
> Rod
>
> Doug Byfield wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:58, rod wrote:
> > > I've downloaded the part image floppy images and made the two floppies
> > > although I haven't actually used the program I have looked at it. Two
> > > concerns here: 1) it's beta software but then a lot of linux stuff is so
> > > probably no big deal
> >
> > If you have the room, experiment with small non-essential files. I used it to
> > make a backup copy of my home directory and then restored with no problems.
> >
> > BTW-CDR's make a nice place to store the backups! :-)
> >
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