On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:29, Colin J Thomson wrote: > Hi, > > Following up from my "Drive Upgrade questions" post: > > I finally installed my new SATA drive and with a bit work I can see the > drive with "dmesg". It was just a case of probing the correct driver and > adding it to my rc.local, the Drive is seen as a SCSI (sda) > I guess thats what I get for running a custom kernel (a bit more work to > do) :) > > I have followed the threads on "ghosting" a drive but I dont feel very > comfortable just yet trying it, the plan of action is ghost my working fC2 > system (hda) to the new SATA drive (sda) and Boot from the SATA drive. > > The plan of action is to boot up from the FC2 CD in rescue mode and use DD, > and issue this command: > > dd if=/dev/hda of/dev/hde > This is NOT a good plan. The copy will have the exact same partition table/geometry/labels/etc as the original. It will likely damage the destination drive unless the destination is exactly the same as the original ( make/model/ CHS/etc.) You can create the partitons on the new drive then copy data over, or use g4u to do what you want. for info see http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > BTW I can't see and "switch" in DD that will show me progress of the > copying, > NOTE that the SATA shows as "hde" when I booted in rescue mode with the FC2 > CD's.. > I guess then some work/changes maybe required in Grub once I set my BIOS to > boot from the SATA drive? > > How does this look or would it be easier/safer to try another method, I > have heard of "Spinrite"? being mentioned but have yet to look that one up, > anyone had any expereince with Spinrite.. > > Cheers, > > Colin > -- > Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 > KDE-Redhat-3.3.1-0.1.2.kde > Registered Linux user number 342953
