Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:18:27 +1100 Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:36:43 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:19 -0800, Jimmy Liang wrote: > >> What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xe

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-08 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:36:43 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:19 -0800, Jimmy Liang wrote: >> What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon. >> Can you suggest the best way to do this? I'd like to move it to a larger >> driv

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:30:25 -0800 "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know the incantations for fixing LILO in the MBR using a > rescue/live > disk? usually you mount the / of the system your trying to save, chroot into it and run lilo from in there. check the arch

RE: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-04 Thread David Christensen
Rodney Richison wrote: > I like norton ghost, then fix grub in the mbr because ghost will > likely break it. > After ghosting.. > Boot with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do) > Open a terminal window > Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only) > mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-04 Thread Rodney Richison
I like norton ghost, then fix grub in the mbr because ghost will likely break it. After ghosting.. Boot with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do) Open a terminal window Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only) mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 chroot /mnt/hda1 grub-install /

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Jimmy Liang, > Hi All, > > I'm in need of some hints here. I have a P4 box running Debian 3.1, with > things like Postfix, spamassassin, MySQL, Apache, and other misc > softwares. > What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon. > Can you suggest the best w

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:19 -0800, Jimmy Liang wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm in need of some hints here. I have a P4 box running Debian 3.1, with > things like Postfix, spamassassin, MySQL, Apache, and other misc > softwares. > What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon.

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-03 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 1/3/06, Jimmy Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. If I simply take the drive and put it in the new box, can anyone think > of any problems? missing drivers and such? I don't know enough about the > Debian installer or the Linux kernel to know if they treat the P4 and Xeon > chips differently

Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-03 Thread Jimmy Liang
Hi All, I'm in need of some hints here. I have a P4 box running Debian 3.1, with things like Postfix, spamassassin, MySQL, Apache, and other misc softwares. What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon. Can you suggest the best way to do this? I'd like to move it to a