Oh, forgot to ask. If you have grub on your
boot sector of the new drive, you should be
okay; but if you have lilo, you will have to
do the dance of the OS transition to get the
restored kernel up in place of the old kernel
and thus avoid the even more fun rework of
your lilo boot sector. This can be tough to
do without being booted on the new root disk,
and means the simple rsync mirroring can give
you a non-bootable system... until you figure
out how to run lilo with your disk mounted by
KNOPPIX and get it to do things in the right
disk context. 

Chances are it is grub though, so you won't
have this hassle. If you do, there are probably
people here who can tell you how to recover.
I'd done it but its been a couple years and I'd
have to think hard. I believe I worked through
chroot from KNOPPIX.

Don't take all my comments as a voice of doom.
Chances are it will work fine. Just that once
in awhile it don't. And you have the luxury
that you can wipe and start over as many times
as you want. Believe me, that *IS* a luxury!

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