Re: How to drive copy Linux

From: Jay Ehrhart (yoloits_at_ycoe.org)
Date: 02/07/05

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    Thank you everyone for your help.

    Jay
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <MarMcDouga@gov.mb.ca>
    To: "'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
    Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:56 AM
    Subject: RE: How to drive copy Linux

    > Jay.
    >
    > Your question comes up on list frequently. Here is what I do:
    >
    > Boot with the Linux cd to rescue mode, login as root and run grub. Once
    you
    > have the grub prompt, type "find /boot/grub/stage1" or "find /grub/stage1"
    > depending on the pathing, without the quotes. The command should return
    > something to the effect of (hd0,0). At the prompt, type "root (hd0,0)" or
    > whatever was returned in the previous command, and hit enter. Again at
    the
    > prompt type "setup (hd0)". That should reinstall the grub boot loader.
    Quit
    > out of grub, exit out of rescue mode and reboot. You should be good to
    go.
    > HTH
    >
    > Regards, Marshall
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Jay Ehrhart [mailto:yoloits@ycoe.org]
    > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:52 AM
    > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
    > Subject: Re: How to drive copy Linux
    >
    >
    > Thank you but I should have included my reason for the drive copy. The
    > server is a production server and has web sites, email, monitoring
    software,
    > SpamAssassin and a host of other software. I am having some hard drive
    > errors reported in my logs so I thought the easiest way to move all the
    > files and the installed software was a drive copy to a new drive.
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Jay Berryman" <jay.berryman@sitel.com>
    > To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
    > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:36 AM
    > Subject: RE: How to drive copy Linux
    >
    >
    > > If the servers are identical, use kickstart to do your install.
    > >
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    > > On Behalf Of Jay Ehrhart
    > > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:29
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    > > Subject: How to drive copy Linux
    > >
    > > I am running Red Hat 3 AS with one 36 GB SCSI drive. I have the drive
    > > partitioned, home, usr, /, var. I want to copy the entire drive to
    > another
    > > SCSI drive attached to the cable so I can install the drive drive in an
    > > identical server. Then I can rename and renumber the server and be
    done.
    > I
    > > used Ghost 7.5 which copied the data but would the system would not
    boot.
    > > It got to Grub in the boot squence and stopped. How can I get this to
    > work?
    > > Or what is the method to copy or clone a Linux drive to another?
    > >
    > > Thanks,
    > > Jay
    > >
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