Subject: Re: Please Help!!!! OS Transfer
From: Craig Callender (craigc@corith.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 09:38:12 AKST
I hear this works, but only as root:
cat /dev/SecondHarddrive > /dev/FirstHarddrive
So on my system, it would look like:
cat /dev/hdb > /dev/hda
But it might only workon HD of the same size.
-- Craig C.
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FeLoNiouS MoNK wrote:
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 03:17:17 -0900
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK <codered@gci.net>
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Please Help!!!! OS Transfer
Ok .. heres the deal.. i have a RH 7.2 system with 2 harddisks .. the first=
hd is a 13 gig fat32 FS (my windows drive) and the second is a 60 gig part=
ioned half native lin and half fat 32 (my linux drive)..anywayz about 1 1/2=
ago i had my *nix box set up to dual boot wit winblowz.. about 1 year ago =
while i was tdy some how my ex crashed the fat 32 partition on the second d=
rive.. not really caring about windows since i only had it for her.. i just=
didnt use it .. well now i am wanting to wipe the second hardrive so i can=
use it for ftp file storage only .. but i am wondering what would be the e=
asiest way for me to transfer my whole os to the first HD so i dont have to=
go back and reinstall and recompile all the stuff i had done within in the=
last couple of years... should i just format the first drive and cp the h=
ole thing over.. but i was thinkin if i did that .. it wouldnt boot offa it=
=2E. hmm i dunno .. plus im tired and the crown royal is touching me.. but =
seriously i am tryin to get this done within the next couple of days ... so=
if you have any ideas .. let me here them .. i am at a lost here on what t=
o do and how... thanx ahead of time
--The only thing windows and linux have in common is they both work on a co=
mputer--
In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and
null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
IBM was moving over the face of the market. And DEC said, "Let there
be registers"; and there were registers. And DEC saw that they
carried; and DEC separated the data from the instructions. DEC called
the data Stack, and the instructions they called Code. And there was
evening and there was morning, one interrupt.
-- Rico Tudor, "The Story of Creation or, The Myth of Urk"
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