> > I set up a GENTOO box for a friend of mine (it's his first Linux > experience and he is really happy with it) recently. > > The box in question has a rather old, small and slow harddrive that he > wants to exchange in the near future. > > Is it possible, and if so, how, to copy the existing GENTOO installation > to the new harddrive? > > TIA, > Sebastian >
I did this not long ago and it worked great. The procedure I followed was to connect both hard drives, then boot off the install cd. I fdisked the new drive. I then mounted each of the old partitions under /old and each of the new partitions under /new. Then I ran this command to copy the files: rsync -a --progress /old/ /new Then I switched cables so the old drive was now hda, booted from the CD and ran grub on hd0. It booted right up from the new drive after that. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
