On 02/01/07, Thomas Rooney <tom at netsys.ie> wrote:
> Frank Murphy wrote:
> > Cannot boot to rl5, so need to copy\backup hda1 to hdb before "fixing
> > anything"
> >
> > How do I copy all hda1 (20gb)? openSUSE 10.2
> You need to get knoppix first...
...or have some other way of booting, such as toms root boot or
various rescue disks. Or even your own machine as-is, if "Cannot boot
to rl5" does not exclude "can boot to rl1" or something similar.
So your answer is "dd".
if=/dev/hda1, of= some file on hdb.
And before you do that, read
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/VALinux-kb/copying-directory-trees.html and
pay particular attention to part 5.
Good luck,
f
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