Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-13 Thread Brad Felmey
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 10:58, Praedor Tempus wrote: I do not know offhand the copy command arguments needed - you want to make sure you copy files AND symlinks but NOT the /proc directory (I think that's the one - if you try to copy that one you will get into recursion hell) Assuming all

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-12 Thread David
Yeah, Hoyt posted the URL last night and I go it done. Thanks. Dave John Haywood said onto me: -- |On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:58, you wrote: | On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: | I have bought a new harddrive

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is that it is _not_ possible to do so while

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-11 Thread John Haywood
On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:58, you wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is

[expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-10 Thread David
I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is that it is _not_ possible to do so while booted into Linux. tia Dave --