Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer - Debian
This is a discussion on Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer - Debian ; This is going to be so much fun trying to explain this one! I'm currently
running a dual boot on two hard drives. WinXP on the master (HD0) and
Debian Etch on the slave (HD1). I wanted to try out ...
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Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
This is going to be so much fun trying to explain this one! I'm currently
running a dual boot on two hard drives. WinXP on the master (HD0) and
Debian Etch on the slave (HD1). I wanted to try out Lenny (Testing) but was
unwilling to risk anything going wrong, I'm still fairly new to all this
Linux stuff. So I unplugged my main hard drives, plugged in an old 15gb I
had laying around, and installed Lenny on that. Everything went fine with
the install and it runs well. I didn't really play around with it all that
much. Now comes the fun part, here's what I want to try doing:
Boot up with my Gparted disc and resize my Etch partition and create a new
partition to copy Lenny to. It's a 80GB drive currently configured to 60GB
for the file system and the rest for Swap. At present using only 10GB of
space.
Unplug my WinXP drive and plug in my 15GB with Lenny on it.
Boot up with my Super Grub disc and have it boot into Etch. (When I
installed Etch I installed the Grub boot loader on HD0 and that has
control)
Here's the part I'm not sure about. I've been going through the synaptic
package manager looking for a hard drive data transfer utility program. To
be honest, I don't know what to look for or even if there is one. I'm
assuming that of course it's fully possible to do a clone/copy/data
transfer from one hard drive to another in Linux much the same as I would
in Windows. Or is it just a matter of simply copying all the files from one
drive to the other. Of course, remembering to add an entry in the Menu.lst
file for Lenny.
The main reason I want to do this is because during the install Lenny did
the update thing and that took longer to do than downloading the ISO file.
It would certainly take me less time to set up everything up and copying
the files, assuming I can do that.
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Re: Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote in
news:1ja1n5x5op.ln2@news.gates-of-hell.com:
> Ghost 4 Linux
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately it didn't work out that well, I never got
as far as transfering anything. I'm not sure what the problem is but my Etch
drive is kaput. For now I had to reset the MBR to windows and deal with
fixing whatever is wrong with it later. I think I'll add a sig line for this
occasion.
Mike
"Experimentation can be fun, but only when it goes right."
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Re: Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
SINNER wrote:
> Ghost 4 Linux
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l
I use g4u www.feyrer.de/g4u/ it's never failed, but some people fail to
make the new boot partition active and then wonder why it won't boot.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Debian GNU/Linux Stable - Registered Linux User #380263 - "Software is
like sex, it's better when it's free": Linus Torvalds
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Re: Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
Jimmy Johnson wrote in news:489e9feb$0$7776
$2318a52a@unlimited.newshosting.com:
> I use g4u www.feyrer.de/g4u/ it's never failed, but some people fail to
> make the new boot partition active and then wonder why it won't boot.
I didn't even get as far as partitioning. :-) My slave drive isn't even
showing up in my BIOS. So it's either one of two things - bad cable connector
or the drive itself is toast. I already ruled out the power connector.
Replace the cable and see what happens. Bummer if it's the drive, but oh
well, it was just an old drive I was using to expirement with anyway.
Mike
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Re: Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
Mike wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson wrote in news:489e9feb$0$7776
> $2318a52a@unlimited.newshosting.com:
>
>> I use g4u www.feyrer.de/g4u/ it's never failed, but some people fail to
>> make the new boot partition active and then wonder why it won't boot.
>
>
> I didn't even get as far as partitioning. :-) My slave drive isn't even
> showing up in my BIOS. So it's either one of two things - bad cable connector
> or the drive itself is toast. I already ruled out the power connector.
> Replace the cable and see what happens. Bummer if it's the drive, but oh
> well, it was just an old drive I was using to expirement with anyway.
Is (are) the drive(s) jumpered correctly? Don't assume without checking
that "Cable Select" is supported _and_ selected for an old drive.
Regards,
Kees.
--
Kees Theunissen.
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Re: Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
Mike wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson wrote in news:489e9feb$0$7776
> $2318a52a@unlimited.newshosting.com:
>
>> I use g4u www.feyrer.de/g4u/ it's never failed, but some people fail to
>> make the new boot partition active and then wonder why it won't boot.
>
>
> I didn't even get as far as partitioning. :-) My slave drive isn't even
> showing up in my BIOS. So it's either one of two things - bad cable connector
> or the drive itself is toast. I already ruled out the power connector.
> Replace the cable and see what happens. Bummer if it's the drive, but oh
> well, it was just an old drive I was using to expirement with anyway.
Drive pinning:
http://www.certiguide.com/aplush/cg_...leSelectCS.htm
--
Jimmy Johnson
Debian GNU/Linux Stable - Registered Linux User #380263 - "Software is
like sex, it's better when it's free": Linus Torvalds
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Kees Theunissen wrote in
news:489ed7f5$0$196$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
> Is (are) the drive(s) jumpered correctly? Don't assume without checking
> that "Cable Select" is supported _and_ selected for an old drive.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kees.
Kees,
I know you're trying to help but I had to laugh a little at 'cable select'.
It's not a question of jumper settings, and it's not that old of a drive.
Even if it were, I have rarely in 25 years of working with computers have
ever seen the need to use the cable select jumper setting. Certainly not on
any computer or hard drives I've ever used.
The drive is a door-stop. It just chose that particular time to die. It
wouldn't have mattered what I did, it would have died just the same.
Mike
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Mike wrote:
> Kees Theunissen wrote in
> news:489ed7f5$0$196$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
>
>> Is (are) the drive(s) jumpered correctly? Don't assume without checking
>> that "Cable Select" is supported _and_ selected for an old drive.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kees.
>
>
> Kees,
>
> I know you're trying to help but I had to laugh a little at 'cable select'.
>
> It's not a question of jumper settings, and it's not that old of a drive.
I'm wondering if we are talking about the same "cable select".
I've seen it used for the first time on a Pentrium Pro system (Dell
Dimension XPSPro 200n, IIRC) and it has been in _very_ common use since
then. So I can't place your "it's not that old of a drive".
All ide/ata drives produced in the last 10 years or more support it.
Most of them left the factory jumpered that way I guess.
Regards,
Kees.
--
Kees Theunissen.
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Re: Linux & Cloning / Data Transfer
Kees Theunissen wrote in
news:489fd554$0$188$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
> I'm wondering if we are talking about the same "cable select".
> I've seen it used for the first time on a Pentrium Pro system (Dell
> Dimension XPSPro 200n, IIRC) and it has been in _very_ common use since
> then. So I can't place your "it's not that old of a drive".
> All ide/ata drives produced in the last 10 years or more support it.
> Most of them left the factory jumpered that way I guess.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kees.
"Cable Select" was around before then, it was just called something
else.:-) An 80GB drive isn't that old, or rather that outdated. I can't see
any need to use that setting on my drives, in fact it would certainly cause
problems if I did. At any rate, this is all irrelevant to the problem I was
having and the solution I was trying. I've since installed a new hard
drive, got Lenny installed, and everything runs great. Well, so far, I'm
hoping Lenny Testing isn't going to cause to many problems with any
possible buggines.
Mike
