What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another?
I am trying to do transfer my current install from a smaller drive to a larger one. I installed, partitioned and formatted the new drive with the same partitions as the smaller one. Then, I copied each partition in turn (/, /root, /home, /opt, /var, /usr) to the appropriate partition on the new drive with cp -a small-drive-partition /mnt/new-drive-partition. When I boot (from floppy) to the new drive, I am told that /var/lock, /var/run/utmp don't exist. urandom start: fails. Then, when system switches to run level 2, syslogd hangs. But, all the /var files and directories did get copied. Is there a problem with my approach, and a better way to do this? Thanks in advance. mike
