In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote: > > : greetings, > : > : I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT >;0) > : ), what are the steps necessary. > >login as root > >mke2fs /dev/sdb1 >mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt >cd / >find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt >umount /mnt >vi /etc/fstab >reboot
No, you also need to tell lilo to pass "root=/dev/sdb1" as parameter (and probably to boot the kernel on /dev/sdb1 as well, else there will be surprises when /dev/sda4 gets recycled). Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
