[K12OSN] How to drive copy Linux

[Dale Sykora]

Ehrhart, Jay wrote:

> I am running Red Hat 3 AS with one 36 GB SCSI drive.  I have the drive
> partitioned, home, usr, /, var.  I want to copy the entire drive to
> another SCSI drive attached to the cable so I can install the drive
> drive in an identical server.  Then I can rename and renumber the server
> and be done.  I used Ghost 7.5 which copied the data but would the
> system would not boot.  It got to Grub in the boot squence and stopped.
> How can I get this to work?  Or what is the method to copy or clone a
> Linux drive to another?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay

You might want to look at Knoppix Hack #61
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack61.pdf
although they refer to another hack #53 (must borrow or buy) to get grub 
fixed on the new partition.