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Hi,
I have an HR10-250 with original 250GB drive, and weaknees twinbreeze with additinal 400GB drive (650GB total). Had some reboot problems, decided it was time to upgrade to dual 750GB drives, and I want to preserve my programs.
It looks like partitions 14,15 are free on the 250GB, and maybe 4 partitions free on the 400GB drive, so I would expect mfsadd to be ok. (mfsinfo says I can upgrade 3 more times, which makes sense; once on the 250, twice on the 400).
dd from old to new works (Tivo likes the new drives), but when I try to do mfsadd, it gives something like a write fault error and the drives are no longer usable until I start over (takes a long time).
So I want to try mfsbackup | mfsrestore, but then I need 4 free IDE's. I have a 2nd IDE controller, but but the CDROM won't boot from it, only from the integrated controller. It boots fine, but then says "can't find CDROM", perhaps because /dev/hda-/dev/hdd are on the 2nd ide, and the CDROM is on /dev/hde. I tried same thing with USB attached CDROM and one IDE, and got same problem. Linux boots, but can't mount the CDROM. Same thing using an old SCSI disk & card. I tried everything here, it doesn't work.
Next would be to try to backup from the old drives to a file on a new large drive, but instructions say it must be FAT32, which is much too small (the backup will be about 580GB). Could I format the drive as ext3 and use it? Perhaps MFSbackup can't handle that large a file, but if I use "-" and "> huge.bkf" maybe it would work?
I have a fedora core 3 boot CD which boots fine even with the extra ide controller, but when I try to run mfstools (which I put on a floppy!), it crashes. mfstools is about 500k, so it is the statically linked one. I am not postive I was root, so that could be the problem.
Any other ideas/suggestions? My goal is simple: upgrade from 250+400 to new 750+750, while preserving all the content.
Thanks,
jschmidt
I have an HR10-250 with original 250GB drive, and weaknees twinbreeze with additinal 400GB drive (650GB total). Had some reboot problems, decided it was time to upgrade to dual 750GB drives, and I want to preserve my programs.
It looks like partitions 14,15 are free on the 250GB, and maybe 4 partitions free on the 400GB drive, so I would expect mfsadd to be ok. (mfsinfo says I can upgrade 3 more times, which makes sense; once on the 250, twice on the 400).
dd from old to new works (Tivo likes the new drives), but when I try to do mfsadd, it gives something like a write fault error and the drives are no longer usable until I start over (takes a long time).
So I want to try mfsbackup | mfsrestore, but then I need 4 free IDE's. I have a 2nd IDE controller, but but the CDROM won't boot from it, only from the integrated controller. It boots fine, but then says "can't find CDROM", perhaps because /dev/hda-/dev/hdd are on the 2nd ide, and the CDROM is on /dev/hde. I tried same thing with USB attached CDROM and one IDE, and got same problem. Linux boots, but can't mount the CDROM. Same thing using an old SCSI disk & card. I tried everything here, it doesn't work.
Next would be to try to backup from the old drives to a file on a new large drive, but instructions say it must be FAT32, which is much too small (the backup will be about 580GB). Could I format the drive as ext3 and use it? Perhaps MFSbackup can't handle that large a file, but if I use "-" and "> huge.bkf" maybe it would work?
I have a fedora core 3 boot CD which boots fine even with the extra ide controller, but when I try to run mfstools (which I put on a floppy!), it crashes. mfstools is about 500k, so it is the statically linked one. I am not postive I was root, so that could be the problem.
Any other ideas/suggestions? My goal is simple: upgrade from 250+400 to new 750+750, while preserving all the content.
Thanks,
jschmidt
. Seriously, I'm running out of options. All I have is a factory 250GB and an added 400GB created using instantcake.
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