26 Jan
2005
26 Jan
'05
6:12 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:21 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
I'm now wondering if I can clone the OS onto a
bigger drive without
install media :-) If I copy partition table area and the 'boot'
partitions (7 & 8 - which happen to be at the start of the disk) then it
might work. I'll have to manually edit the table (and disk size field)
on the new drive, leaving the boot partitions as they are. Then boot the
Tek with the new disk as an auxiliary, format the root partition on the
new disk, and copy everything across via dump/restore to the new drive.
Well... that worked :-) I now have a 300MB root partition and a 600MB
'spare' data partition with all OS and user data still intact, and all
without having to rebuild via install media (which I don't have).
It *seems* to be hanging together at the moment. I had it running
earlier and then the filesystem suddenly corrupted itself, but I think
that was the bad block on the drive that I mentioned in a different post
rather than a problem with my hacking partition tables with a hex
editor :-) (the bad block was right at the start of the root filesystem
area of the disk and so probably affected something critical)
Time will tell if it's stable I suppose. I'm going to see if I can get
gcc onto it as the cc that's on there is a little clunky at best...
cheers
Jules