From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGHhh-0000XN-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:00:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8GEshSq011897; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:54:43 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8GEouW8031226 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:50:57 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so507220nzc for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:56:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qiBRaV0RLYxXBnuorKJw/FZTKrabm7cNc22i8aNqAcW2qdoIURAyZzZX1pj7q2Ev8yCcJNhhr96O1T4LCBKXIA4M6Eor6vc1oeW3S84zL8Ee0TVQp6EX9JAylZapxDjZkCTH3JKa3OOwYBHYaJfQzU0bysVzfZJe7gdofhMu6mo= Received: by 10.54.61.2 with SMTP id j2mr396513wra; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.147.6 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1cc2dc830509160756fe0378f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:56:02 -0300 From: Allan Spagnol Comar To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk In-Reply-To: <200509161522.41284.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200509161522.41284.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8GEouW8031226 X-Archives-Salt: 75c550b5-d480-495f-b5d8-5ee236e785cb X-Archives-Hash: d807389a2e60727e040b63a1afac1d84 You can make a precise copy of your disk with dd command using dd if=/dev/hdaX of=backupfile.iso and then on the disk you want to write the data with dd if=backupfile.iso of=/dev/hdXX; if bouth disk are in the same machine you can copy it directtly using dd if=/dev/originpartition of=/dev/destinationpartition holpe that helps, Allan On 9/16/05, Paul wrote: > Hi all, > > My main harddisk is starting to go, making awful noise and causing the > computer to freeze. > I have another spare disk and I wondered if somebody would list out the > procedure I need to follow to create and format the partitions and to copy > all of the faulty disk contents. Then how to boot from the new disk. > The new disk will need the following partitions:- > /boot ext2 > /swap > / reiserfs > > Thanks for any help > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list