Cloning Linux Harddrive

[Computer Hobbyist]

I started learning linux using a 1.2 gig hard drive. Now I want to upgrade to a larger drive. I think I can figure out how to install the drive as a second drive (as master on the secondary IDE), format it and then use one of the partitioning tools that came with linux (Disk Druid) to create new partitions on hdb, but is there a technique for retiring the old drive without losing the data it contains? Sort of a linux cloning technique if you will.

Actually, I haven't gotten so far in this project that I can't just dump the old drive and reload the new drive from the cd, but I have spent enough time downloading and installing Netscape 6.1 and downloading the latest version of Samba that I don't want to lose either.

As a second question concerning Samba, does Samba require me to abandon DHCP and assign static IP's to every machine?

CH

[mairving]

It looks like Norton Ghost 2002 will clone Linux EXT2 partitions. I am not sure about the earlier versions.

You can use Samba with DHCP with little problem. The only problem I had was that when I set up Samba, I told it to accept connections from only two ip's. Well after a power outage, my router decided to assign different ip's to my machines. So I couldn't connect from one machine. So I edited smb.conf and it worked fine.

[Statica]

http://www.partimage.org/

Originally posted by Computer Hobbyist
I started learning linux using a 1.2 gig hard drive. Now I want to upgrade to a larger drive. I think I can figure out how to install the drive as a second drive (as master on the secondary IDE), format it and then use one of the partitioning tools that came with linux (Disk Druid) to create new partitions on hdb, but is there a technique for retiring the old drive without losing the data it contains? Sort of a linux cloning technique if you will.

CH

[Computer Hobbyist]

Statica,

That ought to work. There is even some advice on the obvious lilo problem.

Thanks

CH