All right, here's the summary. The drive-to-drive backup does work in RH9, but you have to change /etc/fstab to reflect device names instead of labels. For example, if fstab contains: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 change it to: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 Do this to each line containing a LABEL statement. I'm not sure what is the best way to find the actual device name (hda?) for each partition on a text-only installation. I ran Disk Druid from the setup CD and backed out after viewing the info. When you finish editing /etc/fstab on the first drive, turn off the computer, add the second drive (unformatted) as a slave, and use dd to copy all the partitions from the first drive to the second drive: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k Now you have a backup. To use it, turn off the computer and change the jumpers on both drives to make the master the slave and vice-versa. This assumes you are using two IDE drives, and the backup drive is the same size or larger than the primary drive. Thanks again for the help. -Glenn. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
