Re: hdd change

2002-06-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > > > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'? > > It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2). The GNU cp command does those... "cp -a". Other "cp" variants ma

Re: hdd change

2002-06-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'? It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2). Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: hdd change

2002-06-23 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:33, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > csj wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:55:52AM: > > > It doesn't. Grub can be installed from another disk, after which you > > just need to edit {Temporary_mountpoint}/boot/grub/menu.lst. You can > > Well, as far as I know, Grub also rel

Re: hdd change

2002-06-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include csj wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:55:52AM: > It doesn't. Grub can be installed from another disk, after which you > just need to edit {Temporary_mountpoint}/boot/grub/menu.lst. You can Well, as far as I know, Grub also relies on block maps to load its second stage, exactly as Lilo doe

Re: hdd change

2002-06-22 Thread csj
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:47:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) wrote: > That would work fine. However, I have done this kind of thing a fair few > times now, and getting the new hard disc to boot when you've done this > kind of thing and then removed the first hard disc is a bit a pain a

Re: hdd change

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > Sure, this would be quite easy to do. > > 1. Install the new HDD on a secondary IDE chain, say primary slave, hdb > > 2. Partition the drive the way you want > > 3. Mount the drive up the way it will appear for boot, on s

Re: hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:04, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:49:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 11:55, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > [snip] > > > 4. Run the following command: > > > # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | tar xvpf - --directory=/new

Re: hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:49:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 11:55, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > [snip] > > 4. Run the following command: > > # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | tar xvpf - --directory=/new > > Just curious: why no "x" or "j" in order to minimize

Re: hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 11:55, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: [snip] > 4. Run the following command: > # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | tar xvpf - --directory=/new Just curious: why no "x" or "j" in order to minimize disk IO? [snip] > That will do an excellent job of duplicating your driv

Re: hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Patrick M
Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'? PM, 22 On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > Sure, this would be quite easy to do. > > 1. Install the new HDD on a secondary IDE chain, say primary slave, hdb > > 2. Partition the drive the way you want > >

Re: hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Sure, this would be quite easy to do. 1. Install the new HDD on a secondary IDE chain, say primary slave, hdb 2. Partition the drive the way you want 3. Mount the drive up the way it will appear for boot, on say /new 4. Run the following command: # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | t

Re: hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Yes, it's possible. I think you need to do something like this: - Install the new hard drive. - Boot to your old hard drive. - Partition the new hard drive as desired, including the partitions you need for replacing the old drive. - Make the necessary filesystems. - Use tar (or something else) to

hdd change

2002-06-21 Thread Baan Zoltan
I have a debian box, but i would like to change my hdd to a larger one. Is it possible to copy this debian system to the other hdd, because i don't want to install a new one, and spending so much time to get a configured system like this. Zoltan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]