unstability of my linux server

[Turishi Malhotra]

Hi All

I have linux server 5.2 appollo 3 gb and 8 gb.Linux linux is giving HDD problem too much of noise is coming and I think tht my this HDD is going to crash sooner,now I want to shift the whole linux to new one without disturbing/upgrading the present one,as i can't do anything with original server.

So some one can help me in shifting my original to new one(how to make a mirror of this system to other one which has different hardware configuration.I excat details to do it as i have very less time and with less options.
I had taken Dump of original one and while restoring it it is not detecting the tape drive and I checked tht tape drive is fine,I booted the system with bootable disk but it doesn't worked.So plz now tell me from were i can get bootable disk which can detect my tape drive and whta would be the restore command.

thz

[Steven E. Protter]

There is going to be some disruption to make this move.

The way I move Linux systems to new disk drives is this:

Shut down system:
Install a new Hard Disk make sure its detected in bios

I boot off a windows 98 DOS diskette.

I take a second diskette with Symmantec Norton Ghost on it, run ghost.

I do disk to disk transfer of the entire contents of the disk thats going bye bye to the new one.

I shut down the system, remove the old disk, configure the new one as primary Master and boot.

This is pretty reliable.

You can also use the Linux tool mindi/mondo, but I don't know how reliable that is.

There are several distributions of Linux now that you can burn onto a bootable CD. Any of these will detect your tape drive and enable you to boot in graphical mode and do your data restore.

SEP

[Stuart Browne]

Wow.. I really do it the hard way..

Same hardware steps, but the file transfers I do are much more manual.

Ah well.. Take 3 weeks off work, and look what happens.. *sob*sob* 50 points behind *sob*

[Turishi Malhotra]

Hi Steven

Can u tell me the site from where i can download the bootable cd so tht i can proceed with the installation

thz

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

you may use first RH Linux CD - it's bootable.


Or use Knoppix Live CD.

For dw: http://www.linuxiso.org/