need to switch computers without losing data

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Feb 13 21:26:38 UTC 2007


Tom Poe wrote:
> Mikkel:  Thanks for the pointers.  Could I make a rescue disk on my
> computer, and use it on her computer?  I typed "rescue disk" into
> Google, and found a link to linuxdoc.org that had rescue disk info.  It
> didn't load, so I'll have to try again, later.  I got the impression
> though, that there are fairly generic rescue disks out there to download
> and use.
> Tom
> 
That should work fine. You can also use the rescue mode of the
install CD. Or you can take a look at http://www.sysresccd.org - I
don't remember if Sysrescue supports LVM, so you if you use LVM, you
are probably better off using the install CD.

Mikkel
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