Thanks a lot for the tips AragonX! I do have Ghost 2003 :)
Please forgive my ignorance, if I use Ghost it will copy a partition of my old drive (10GB), what's the best way (or tools) to 'resize' that old partition to the 40GB of the new drive without risking my data? Again thanks! Sergio Espinoza Dien [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- AragonX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did this a week or so ago. The way I did it > was this: > > 1) Put the new hard drive in as a slave. > 2) Used parted to create the filesystem. (parted > also has the ability to > copy a filesystem but I couldn't get this to work) > 3) Copy the file system with the cp command. I > can't remember if I used > any special command line options. I think I did it > a directory at a time. > Do not try to copy the /proc directory. The > information in that > directory is created at system startup I believe. > 4) Make the /proc directory using mkdir > 5) I'm not sure how to do this part if you are > using lilo. If you are > using grub, check the man pages for how to create a > boot disk and transfer > grub to a new drive. Be sure to write down the > commands because you will > be booting from that disk. > 6) Once the grub boot disk is created, remove the > old hard drive and put > the new drive as master. > 7) Boot off the floppy and follow the commands to > transfer grub to the > hard drive. > 8) Remove the floppy and reboot. You should be > done. > > Now, if you have Ghost, you can just copy the drive > with that. It works > for me. > > <quote who="Sergio Espinoza"> > > Greetings great wizards, > > > > Just a regular newbie eager to hear your advice :) > > > > I currently have my Red Hat Linux 9.0 instalation > on a > > 10GB HD, but, I want to change this instalation to > a > > 40GB HD. > > > > I want to know if it is posible to 'transfer' my > > current instalation to the new drive in a way that > I > > won't lose the already downloaded RHN updates. > > > > I wonder, it's this the best way to aproach this > issue > > or is better to do a clean installl and D/L the > RHN > > updates again? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Sergio Espinoza Dien > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
