hello Wei, Have look at the link below, I have not tryed out this method yet but I will be in the near future. You could set up a spare machine and install a standard debina install and use that setup to check things out, ie dummy run.
http://ithacafreesoftware.org/Members/mitch/notebook/clone_partition/view all the best but test the method first. Regards peter colton On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:13, Wei Hu wrote: > I'm planning to replace my older disk (13G) with a larger/newer hard > disk (750G) and to maintain the machine as it is. what I want are > replace the old disk with the new disk including the Debian (2.6.16) > operating system and keep all the setups. > > Will it wok if I shutdown all daemons, copy all files to the new disk, > and make sure file permissions remain the same as the old one? > > Regards > Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]