You can use mondo rescue to mirror the drive to CDs, then restore. The drivers are mostly in the kernel or modules for the kernel so unless you have non-compatible hardware, it should just boot and work.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ryan Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Possible: Painless switch of hard drive to new box? I've got hundred of hours invested into my redhat 7.3 box software configuration, but I'd like to move the system to a faster CPU, hard drive, etc. My problem is that I would like to maintain all the following during the switch: installed software software configuration changes various permissions, links, etc. on files procmail rules sendmail configuration MailScanner modifications Numerous VNC entries ntsysv, xinetd settings log files user's files mail spools kernel, up2date updates (basically the whole system!) Does anyone have experience doing this type of thing easily? I don't suppose simply mirroring the hard drive onto the one in a new system would be proper: the kernel, network card, video card, motherboard, etc. drivers wouldn't be correct! Couldn't find much on google about this, but I'm sure it's been done! Any tips or pointers to a howto? Thanks much! Ryan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
