[cobalt-users] OT: Copy a drive - am I hosed?

["Oger" <oger@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is a Linux issue, not necessarily Raq, but could be related.

I have a drive from a Linux machine that has the usual /, /home, /usr, /root
etc. partitions on it.   I would like to mount it on a new machine so that I
can transfer the data over.  But I seem to be encountering a problem when I
try that, because the drive on the new machine has partitions of the same
names.

The old drive no longer boots properly, and the password file has become
corrupted.  I cannot even log into a command line locally.  I cannot FTP to
the old machine to transfer the data.

Somehow (I'm not picky how) I just need to get the data from one drive to
the other.   I've gotta be missing something here.  Any suggestions?

--Chris