use G4U to clone it to an ftp server or second drive
much easier
Maciej Z.enczykowski wrote:
>> A> Make bootable floppy
>> B> Start in single user mode
>> C> Create same partition structure on hew drive
>> D> Move all files from old partitions to new partitions
>> E> Switch drives
>> F> Boot off floppy, mount, reinstall grub and boot manager on new drive
>> G> Profit!
>
>
> well if you want a real quick'n'dirty way to do it then you can simply
> turn off the computer, hook up the drive, boot with kernel command
> line init=/bin/bash, watch the messages for info on what device name
> the new drive got and do "/bin/dd if=/dev/hd{source}
> of=/dev/hd{target} bs=1048576", once it completes do "/bin/sync" and
> powerdown, remove the old disk and hook up the new disk in it's place
> and reboot and usually everything works normally. [it does screw up
> drive geometry but since linux uses LBA adressing anyway this is
> irrelevant]
>
> if there are read errors on the source drive you'll probably want to
> use dd_rescue instead of dd.
>
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