fit new un-buggered hdd into system
boot from (slackware 3.X for example) rescue floppy or something.
then dd if=/dev/fukt_hdd of=/dev/replacement_hdd
If the disks are identical there shouldn't be a problem. There are
probably some other options to dd which could be used but as that's a
black art in which I've not dabbled, I won't advise.
another method whould be to to create a similar ish partition table on
the new disk
boot from rescue floppy again, mount the partitions under something like
/buggered_disk & /good_disk and mount the vairous /usr & stuf under
their respective mount points.
Then do something like this
tar -C /buggered_disk -vf - . | tar --preserve --same-owner -C
/good_disk -xvf -
swap out the disks, boot from floppy, re-install lilo, rehoof the system
That should work, I think, If not I'm sure someone will point out where
my brain melted.
check out the various manpages anyway, they're useful.
Ray ...
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