I have and RH8.093 system - PIII-450 And 2 drives, a 6 gig with /swap, /boot - ext3, and / - ext3 on it. And a 5 gig with /usr - ext3.

I have a new ata133 40 gig that I want to install and replace both the existing drives.

I have tried using ghost 2002 to dump the 6 gig to the 40 gig. When I try to boot linux with the 40 gig anywhere in the chain, ie hda or hdc I get a kernel panic -- even with a floppy boot. I am assuming ghost didn't clone properly.

So... my question is... can anyone give me a suggestion of how to clone my 6 gig to the 40 gig. I think, if I can get that working that I can handle moving /usr to the 40 gig once I can boot from the 40 gig.

I am still pretty new to linux, i've been a windoze/dos guy so please be kind

Bill

1. what kind of bootloader do you use? (looks like grub)
2. did you manage to copy data or not?

Yes I use grub and the data copied but gave me a weird option. When I started the clone ghost advised that it would convert fat32 to fat ????? I am wondering if it miss identified the ext3 file system.

Bill

I didn't check to see if Ghost 2002 supports ext3. Ghost 2003 does, according to the Symantec site. Maybe I should get a copy of that....

Are there any other utils out there that do a decent job?

Bill

Sorry, I've never use ghost, but if it is a real dump copier I consider the idea is wrong (the phisical structure of different disks cannot be the same, 'dump' means write sector by sector).

So
1. just install the second drive (replace the second 5GB hard drive if required), partition it (create also swap!), format and copy files.
2. next (it is only one of the possible method but the safe one) prepare the boot diskette with grub ('info grub' , Installation->Creating a GRUB boot floppy section.
3. place a newly copied hard drive against 6GB and the removed second one (5GB) at proper place (thus the 6G disk will be outside the linux box)
4. boot from diskette - you'll see GRUB>
5. write:
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
6. reset computer

Should work. I hope I haven't missed anything.

I did exactly this late last year, in my case I replaced an 8g fireball and a 12g seagate with an 80g barracuda IV, you can read about how I did it here.

Woops :-)
Could have sworn I only clicked submit once.....

Thanks very much... you all have given me lots to chew on.

Thanks,
Bill