Check out http://www.storm.ca/~yan/upgrade.html. That is the home of the HD upgrade mini-HOWTO. Basically, it covers the essentials of what you want to do (clone a drive). The only difference is that you'll want to keep your old drive, and pull the new one, where the mini-HOWTO has it the other way around.
I actually don't think that the mini-HOWTO covers the *best* way to clone a drive (which I believe would use cpio), but it will work. noah On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: > I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo. > I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a > different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian. > > I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of using tar. > However, could someone point me in the direction (details would be nice > too:-) of the *best* technique to do this? Thanks in advance. > > -- > Regards, | DEFINITION OF Windows 95: n. 32 bit > extensions > . | and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to > an > Randy | 8 bit operating system originally coded for > a > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit > company, > Teacher/Tech. Coord. | that can't stand 1 bit of competition. > > PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
