On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:36:52PM +0000, Kruppt wrote: > On 2014-01-31, Fabrice Vaillant <[email protected]> wrote: > > to suit my computer. The question I'm asking is, what would be the > > simplest way(if it is possible) to "clone" my existing installation > > onto > > the new ssd. > > Yes you can clone it easily with rsync. > Boot up a LiveCD such as SystemRescueCD on a comp with > grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sdb2 /dev/sdb > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > update-initramfs -uk $(uname -r) >
Just migrated a Wheezy installation to SSD few days earlier. Boot from live debian, fdisk, mkfs, and rsync are pretty straight forward, but the grub part is tricky, perhaps because I never really understand how grub works. I end up let the debian installer do it. 1) install a minimum wheezy 2) boot into live debian 3) copy the /etc/fstab and grub.cfg out, edit uuid if needed 4) rsync -av --delete OLD_Installation/ NEW_Installation/ 5) copy fstab and grub.cfg back 6) run update-grub, (it might not necessary, but seems harmless) -- Chen Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140202074129.GH25217@localhost
