RE: [Nolug] How to get rid of lilo?? -- other option

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 10:05, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> In order to get the installation done today, I've decided to put in IDE
> drive for the setup.
>
> Q: What would be the easiest way of copying the OS from IDE to SCSI drive as
> it's entirety and then boot off of this SCSI drive?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> P
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Petri,
The best way is to do as the others have suggested. The solution
prescribed takes a couple of minutes at best and and always works.
What you suggest in this scenario will give you less than desirable
results. There are lots of to copy everything from one drive to another
however, this does not mean it will actually boot and run as intended
without a lot of configuration changes.
You could install to your ide drive and then mount the other drive to a
directory and copy any data you want off of it but if your interest is
in a clean install and there is no actual data that needs to be
recovered off of the SCSI drive whats the point?
YOu could do the install to the IDE drive then add a line to your boot
loader to boot the kernel on the other drive but again what is the
point?
Any dos based boot disk will have fdisk on it and the cmd fdisk/mbr will
do away with lilo.
Further I suggest using grub. There are less mistakes to make in
configuration.

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