-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9 Apr 2006 at 15:08, Timothy Murphy wrote: To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:08:20 +0100 Organization: Trinity College Dublin Subject: How to copy a Fedora-4 system? Again! Send reply to: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > > > So my query is: how exactly should one copy a Fedora-4 system > > to another partition? > > I asked this question a couple of days ago, > and received quite a lot of responses. > > However, I tried out all the suggestions, > and none of them worked, > which leads me to think that none of the "advisors" > had actually tested their advice. > > I should say that dd is not appropriate > since the source is not all in one partition, > as perhaps I should have made clear; > /usr , /usr/share and /usr/local are all in separate partitions, > although I planned to have one large / partition for the new system > (using an old Windows partition for this purpose). > > The problem, as I see it, is: which directories should one exclude? > In particular, if I copied /dev then the system booted, > but there were a number of errors reported during the boot, > and a number of services did not start. > If I didn't copy /dev the re-boot seemed to hang when init starts. > > Has anyone actually made a copy of an FC-4 system with success, > using tar, cp -a, rsync or anything similar? > If so, which directories did you exclude? > > Not sure if this would work for you, but it is something I did recently. Had a Fedora Core 4 system that had a 40GB hard drive that was reporting via smart that the drive was going to fail shortly. I used g4l to copy the entire disk image to a 200GB drive using G4L, which uses dd. This copied the two partitions to the drive, and then I created another volume with the extra space. The only problem I ran into, was the initrd didn't include the SATA driver, so I had make one with it, and copy it to the drive after booting from the rescue CD. Then it booted fine. > > > > > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC Seti@Home Total Credits 682984.009683 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 -- QDPGP 2.61c Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBRDiOHyzGQcr/2AKZEQISBACg9x6NFB1tKCFp66KAZzQ4sH5BZg0An1kr s0JNoQq9yTS2sE2eRajC83Vg =+JNO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
