Re: [gentoo-user] Copying existing installation to new harddrive

[Chris Bare]

> 
>   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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying existing installation to new harddrive

[Karl-Heinz Zimmer]

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On Monday 21 July 2003 08:16, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>   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?

Sure it is, but where to start explaining the steps to you now?

Which information do you have already?  Did you read the Hard Disk 
Upgrade Mini How-To yet?

Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

Karl-Heinz
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[gentoo-user] Copying existing installation to new harddrive

[Sebastian Bergmann]

  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

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