1. remove the hardisk from your PIII
2. Put that On your PII
3. Create the same kind of partition layout as you have that on your PII
onto
your PIII new hardisk(just the **proportional**). and make the
appropriate
filesystems on the new harddisks, Whatever you think is **reasonable**.
(Like reiserfs, ext2, or worst case ext2)
Make sure **at least** it matches the same exact space requirement
for all the partitions
4. Shut your machine down.(I guess you don't want to shadow your hardisk
to another when that operating system is running.)
5. Get a bootable rescue disk(may use some of the bootable cdrom, most of
the current distributions have their rescue option on the first
installation cd,
like Mandrake, TurboLinux, etc...)
6. Go to rescue mode
7. Mount each hardisk on two different locations with the same directory
mount
point structure.
Example:
HD1
/dev/hda1 /hd1/
/dev/hda2 /hd1/opt
/dev/hda3 /hd1/var
/dev/hda4 /hd1/usr
HD2
/dev/hdc1 /hd2/
/dev/hdc2 /hd2/opt
/dev/hdc3 /hd2/var
/dev/hdc4 /hd2/usr
8. Then shadow the files systems from each.
shadow your file systems like
(cd /hd1; tar cf - *) | (cd /hd2; tar xf -)
This approach will not work if you have a hidden files in the root
directory of your hd1 filesystem
So careful to copy them also.
9. umount all the filesystems
10. shutdown, put the new hard disk on your new PIII system, Boom! done.
else
Just swap the hard disk in and out. This also should work just fine
else
Worst case, do not mount anything. But from rescue mode.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=32M
Wait for this operation to complete.
Take the hard disk put that on your new Machine. Done.
But if the new harddisk is smaller than the old hard disk
this approach is of no use.
If the new hard disk is bigger than the smaller hard disk,
You may have to reconfigure the extra unpartitioned space.
All that up to you. But I will prefer the first option if I were you.
because it has the flexibility of having your own resized partitions
(bigger or smaller whatever you think ).
Last two would be for dump lazy people.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:05 AM
Subject: [LIH] Sex Change - Making Server as Client and Client as Server
Good Linux to e'body,
One guy has following setup:
===========================
P-II 64MB RAM, 8.3GB HDD - **Working as as Server** (
File, Print, Mail
etc. ) With Modem, CDROM. SiS M/Board, SoundBlaster
Pro Sound Card
( No Built in Sound Chip ). RH6.2 Installed. Appli.
Server.
Real Estate 80% Approx Full. -
One No.
P-II 64MB RAM, 4.3GB HDD - **working as Client.**
RH6.2 Installed. Data Entry Jobs. - One
No.
( Both of the above PCs purchased 2 years back. )
P-III 256MB RAM, 10GB HDD - **Working as Client** (
With Intel-810E MB
Built in Sound Card - SoundMax, Built-in SiS video
chip etc - etc.)
RH7.1 Installed. With Win98 Partition. Data Entry
jobs.
Real Estate 68% Approx Full. -
One No.
( This PC is purchased in last year. )
All are networked. No Samba.
The technician who did this setup has left India. (
Smart chap ! )
Actually every-thing was working so fine, that he
did'nt take the
risk of setting up Server on the new P-III and
installing lots of
fine working Server apps from P-II to P-III. ( - said
the owner )
Now, the guy - the owner of this setup, want to make
P-III as Working
Server and the Original P-II Server to work as Client.
Any easy soln to make this happen ?
Once I had tried to do it on Winxx platform, and got
shook-up by
lots of "New hardware found" and other strange
messages with my
system halted !
Is it easy in Linux ? Simple parttion copying is
suffice ?
What can I do ?
Kindly advice !
Regards & Thanks !
~ Pats
( newlxuser )
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