Bob Goodwin wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
John Wendel wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I discovered I can buy a new IDE 160 GB Western Digital Hard
Drive for $83.00 plus shipping. I would like to replace this old
160 GB with a new one. What method would you suggest for putting
all the stuff on the old hard drive on this new one? It seems
that dd could do it but I wonder how fast it would be?
Any experience will be appreciated.
Do a little more shopping at newegg.com and save a few bucks
Seagate 250 GB $69 + free shipping
Hitachi 250 GB $59 + free shipping
OK John you have me hooked. I had forgot newegg and they are the
best for parts. I will order from them.
Now how to put this f7 on the new HD :-( I have had no help
at all so I will do it as I have in the past. I use cp=copy and the
switches -av >> file and that allows me to just let the copy happen
and when over read file and see what happened 8-)
I have done this more times than I needed to. Worked every time ;-)
cp -av should work, although I doubt if it takes care of the selinux
magic. If you want to minimize downtime on an active machine, do
that or an rsync -avH while the machine is still working, then when
you are ready to swap, drop to single user mode and repeat the
rsync, adding the --delete option. This will quickly update any
changes since the first copy, then you can swap the disks and reboot.
I like the rsync method because it is really fast! I had an oops
with the new hard drive. I learned what sata is and my motherboard is
too old. But I bought a pci card that should solve that problem at
the expense of $25.00 and be slow compared to real sata :-(
Did you order power and data cables too? They will be different and
last time I had to order them separately even with this newer computer.
Bob Goodwin
This whole thing is getting out of hand! I spent $110 for a hard
drive and then $24 for a controller card and now you verify my fear that
I need some cables not part of the controller card. But I can turn this
whole thing off yet with a phone call :-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
