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In Reply to: Mirroring hard drive with Linux? posted by Mike B. on November 6, 2006 at 16:25:46:
Are you talking about running a raid or just making a copy of a drive's contents on an external drive?I've been using Linux (Red Hat/Fedora Core) for many years and run a Linux music server for my Squeezebox. I'd be glad to monitor this thread and offer help if you wish.
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I want to dump the original internal small hard drive for a 160. I will add external drives after I get everything working internally. I guess my question is what is the procedure with Linux to mirror the original drive data onto the 160?
Steps to follow;1. Build your "new" computer with new hard-drive
2. add the *old* drive as "secundary" or "slave". There are usually two connectors on the HDD cable, allowing you to do this.WARNING: You will need to figure out the correct jumper settings for the *old* drive. These may be found on the drive itself, or on the manufacturer's web-site.
3. Install Linux distro of your choice. It is important that you follow instructions as you proceed. At some point, you will
have to 'format' your harddrive (as you would with a Windows install).
Your *new* drive is known to Linux as "hda", and the *old* drive
as hdb (Linux has no "C:"-drive).4. Now, with a bit of luck, your distro of choice will automagically
recognize your *old* drive as "windows"-partition, and might even create a link on your desktop, allowing you to access your old data.If not:
5. Open file manager of your choice, go to /mnt directory. Your windows drive may appear here. Some distros use the /media location
I will follow this thread
Good luck!
Kris
I just realized I really don't need the data on the original small drive. If I just install the new 160, am I assuming right that the computer will start in DOS? How do I get Linux to load?
Download your linux distribution and burn to CDs (or DVD). Boot the computer from the CD and it will offer you the option to install Linux on the hard drive of your choice. Just follow from there.If you have your old Windows drive with data you wish to transfer over, have it installed as the second drive. If that Windows version is Win98 it is a FAT32 filesystem and Linux will be able to recognize it. If you are XP and the drive is formatted NTFS, you'll probably need to download a Linux driver to be able to read that filesystem. Depending on how automatic your Linux installation is (they keep tweeking and improving the OS all the time) you may or may not have to mount the windows directory.
When you've got the windows directory mounted, you can now use the copy (cp) command to copy whatever it is you want from the windows drive to your new Linux drive. When that is done, you can remove the windows drive from the machine and do something else with it.
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