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[NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,
no, they are not identical,
if I use the tar untar method,
how do I get the new one to be bootable?
On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:05 PM, MATTHEW BOWIE wrote:
> Oh, if the disks are identical, you can also boot from almost any
> bootable linux cd, then use:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
>
> which will do a raw dump of the whole device. Make sure that hda
> is the old drive and hdb is the new drive or you'll end up
> overwriting your old drive.
>
> Matthew
>
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