how to clone scsi system to IDE?

[cgchris99]

I have been trying to clone a scsi system over to ide. I don't want to fully re-install.

Any ideas? So far I am striking out.

Thanks

[bdg1983]

You could try using 'dd'.

i.e.
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/hda1

I would suggest you read the man pages first for 'dd' before attempting.

Norton's 'Ghost' or Powerquest's 'DriveImage' would also do the job.

[cgchris99]

How does this address the driver changes from scsi to ide ?

The system will not boot if I just clone it over without changes.

How do I boot it up under the ide and force it to search for new hardware?

[bdg1983]

You will have to use a bootdisk to access your linux partition and then edit the bootloader (Grub or Lilo) and change the entries that referred to sd## to hd##. Also /etc/fstab will need to be updated to reflect the change. If you use lilo, you will need to rerun (/sbin/lilo) to write the changes to disk.

You should be good to go if the changes were done correctly.