28 Dec
2000
28 Dec
'00
11:50 p.m.
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, John Lawson wrote:
My fantasy is that I can buy another IDE drive (of
somewhat larger
capacity) and just somehow copy the whole thing on the original down to
the new one, without having to go thru the backup/restore/re-auth all the
programs I've got on it. I have 8mm streaming tape backups of the system,
but that's a pain.
Any advice/how-to/magic formulae?
On an Amiga, I'd just jumper the new IDE drive as slave, partition and
format it, and then do a "Copy CLONE ALL Old_Drive: New_Drive:". I've done
the same thing on a NetBSD machine, though I've forgotten the exact syntax
for "cp". Is this solution sufficiently simple?
Otherwise, one might try a "dd".