On 10/20/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Just want to clarify: you want to clone a partition or a hard drive? > > > Will you leave the original hard drive in the computer or remove it > > > after you're done cloning it? > > > > Thanks, Jonathan. I want to remove the old hard disk after it is > > copied into a partition of the new hard disk. > > Okay, here's what I would do (assuming that the new hard drive has > *nothing* on it and is the same size or larger than the old drive): > > 1. While the computer is off, plug the new hard drive in > 2. Boot from the Rescue CD > 3. Work out which drive is the new one (the target) and which is the old > one (the source). For the purpose of this example, the source will > be /dev/sda and the target will be /dev/sdb. > 4. Run "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M". > IMPORTANT: Make sure that /dev/sda really is the *source* and that > /dev/sdb really is the target. If you get them backwards, you will > erase *all* of your data. > 5. Shutdown system. > 6. Remove old hard drive and plug new hard drive into IDE (or SATA) port > old hard drive was in. > 7. Reboot. > > Just a heads up that the partitions on the new drive will be the same > size that they were on the old drive. If you want to make them larger > (because your new drive is larger) you need to use something like > system-config-lvm (assuming you're using LVM). The point is that the rescue disk does not boot here, as the original F7 kernel is buggy; the working F7 kernel is recent. Any ideas how to overcome this problem? Paul
