On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michael Bruder wrote: > Would any of you be willing to give me some advice on the best way to do > a bare metal recovery of Linux? The University that I work for is > currently in the beginning stages of moving an Oracle 10g installation > off of a dinosaur VMS server, and we cannot determine the best way to do > a bare metal recovery of the RedHat Enterprise 4 OS that will house the > new Oracle installation. It was easy in VMS if we lost the operating > system disk to just pop in a new drive, and restore the OS from tape. > This doesn't seem so easy with RedHat. We are currently researching > options, but I would appreciate any input. Try out Mondo Rescue. Otherwise, if you've got a tarball or similar of the system, boot off a rescue cd, partition the new disk, mount the disk, extract the tarball to said disk, install bootloader, reboot, profit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------