Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread loos
Em Ter, 2006-02-28 às 17:26 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? TIA Fernando Cacciola

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/1/06, loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generally I boot from a LiveCD (Kurumim,Knoppix etc.) create the partitions on the new HD with the same size as the original, How to ensure same size? but located in places where i can easily expand them. I use parted to move them around and create

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread Chris Lale
Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Cloning_a_hard_disc may help. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Chris Lale wrote: Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Cloning_a_hard_disc may help. I does, a lot. I am

Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-02-28 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-02-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
The procedure I normally use is to connect the new drive to the same system, create partitions of identical size to the existing system partitions (root, /usr, /var /opt etc) and any user partitions whose size does not need to change, and make new partitions out of the additional space. Then boot

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-02-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? TIA Fernando Cacciola create the new bigger partition then: cd /root full partition cp -ax * /root