RE: [PLUG] How best to replace old drive with new drive

["Mark Baker" <mark.baker@hxti.com>]

I would use g4l, it has a very nice gui for capturing the image from the old drive and writing it to the new drive.


Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Leone [mailto:turgon@mike-leone.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:37 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: [PLUG] How best to replace old drive with new drive
> 
> So I've got a mail server that has an old HD. And I wanna replace it with a
> larger one, which I happen to have lying about. I know there's any number of
> ways to clone the HD (me, I like Ghost, but I also have DriveImageXML, and I
> suppose I could even do a dd). Anyways, if I were to Ghost to the new drive,
> what would I need to do to make grub run on it? I seem to remember doing
> this before, and getting a new drive with larger partitions, but grub
> wouldn't run.
> 
> A pointer or clue, anyone? Something about booting a Knoppix LiveCD, and
> running "grub-install", I believe?
> 
> Thanks
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