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blue68f100 · 10-20-2006, 01:19 PM

Good info.

I was going to use dd for the cloning, mainly because it's free. Not everyone has a copy of ghost.

Good to know that I only need the 1st partition.

But if you have a working drive, it is easy to transfer the OS.

1. Power down and remove all drives but #1
2. Boot the unit with a single drive.
3. Once fully up and disk activty stops, Hot mount drive #2
4. Once the disk activity is finished, you have a working drive #2
5. Power down and remove the Original Drive #1.
6. Move drive #2 into Drive #1 position.
7. Boot the server with the new drive.
8. Once fully up, Hot mount drives 2-4
9. Now you are ready to do the inital setup.

10-20-2006, 01:19 PM	#2
blue68f100 Thermophile Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,135	Re: Howto: Upgrade/Recover a 4500 with Ghost Good info. I was going to use dd for the cloning, mainly because it's free. Not everyone has a copy of ghost. Good to know that I only need the 1st partition. But if you have a working drive, it is easy to transfer the OS. 1. Power down and remove all drives but #1 2. Boot the unit with a single drive. 3. Once fully up and disk activty stops, Hot mount drive #2 4. Once the disk activity is finished, you have a working drive #2 5. Power down and remove the Original Drive #1. 6. Move drive #2 into Drive #1 position. 7. Boot the server with the new drive. 8. Once fully up, Hot mount drives 2-4 9. Now you are ready to do the inital setup. __________________ 1 Snap 4500 - 1.0T (4 x 250gig WD2500SB RE), Raid5, 1 Snap 4500 - 1.6T (4 x 400gig Seagates), Raid5, 1 Snap 4200 - 4.0T (4 x 2gig Seagates), Raid5, Using SATA converts from Andy Link to SnapOS FAQ's http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=13820