hi ya erik
assuming oyu have copied everything from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc
and ready to boot /dev/hdc as your main system
a. make a boot floppy .. easiest wayt o make a "boot loader"
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
b. swap the disks so that the new one is /dev/hda
c. boot it .. using the floppy ...
run lilo to clean things up ...
all done
if you dont have a floppy... you can try changing lilo.conf
- do NOT modify your original ..make a copy of it
# cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.hdc.conf
# change boot=/dev/hda to boot=/dev/hdc
# lilo -c /etc/lilo.hdc.conf
- swap the cables ont h disk and hope its all happy
ortherwise.. use the floppy boot mechanism
or any other booting floppy/cdrom
c ya
alvin
duplicating/copying/moving disk nano-howto... :-)
- to copy (root) stuff from /dev/hda to /dev/hdc
- doesn't copy empty inodes and bits
- doesn't copy good info into bad-blocks on the target
- use your partition scheme
while booted on /dev/hda
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
tar cf - /bin /boot /dev /etc /lib /sbin | \
( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp -)
( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; mkdir var home usr tmp ; chmod 1777 tmp )
- to cp rest of (non-root stuff ) /var /usr /home sorta the same way
for /var
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/hdc2
( cd /var ; tar cf - * ) | ( cd /mnt/hdc2 ; tar xvfp - )
for /usr
mount /dev/hdc3 /mnt/hdc3
( cd /usr ; tar cf - * ) | ( cd /mnt/hdc3 ; tar xvfp - )
for /home
mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt/hdc5
( cd /home ; tar cf - * ) | ( cd /mnt/hdc5 ; tar xvfp - )
- do the floppy or lilo or grub or normal boot fd/cdrom ...
to fix the mbr
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 20-Jun-2002 Erik Mathisen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I made a post yesterday, but I still have not been able to resolve
> > this issue. I am putting a brand new hard drive into my system. I
> > would like to totally remove my my original drive. I have copy and
> > successfully made /home and other partitions and they are working
> > great. Now the only challenge is to try to copy over the root
> > partition, and make a boot loader boot to it. If anyone could give me
> > a procedure to follow or a reference to read, it would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> there is a new hard drive howto floating around out there which discusses
> this.
> Might be called hard drive upgrade howto.
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