Re: [nlug] Pondering a new system

2015-03-06 Thread JMJ
On 03/06/2015 04:17 PM, JMJ wrote: OK that's 2 votes for Clonezilla, so I'll investigate that. Thanks for the Clonezilla tip, that got me going in the right direction! I used Clonezilla to copy the partitions I wanted, then updated /etc/fstab to hide the partitions that were no longer

Re: [nlug] Pondering a new system

2015-03-06 Thread Tilghman Lesher
One thing I would point out on your partition map is that you appear to have put /boot AFTER /. Today, this is okay, because of GRUB. However, in the older days of LILO, /boot needed to be the first partition. This is because LILO is a 2-stage loader, and the kernel needs to be fully located in

Re: [nlug] Pondering a new system

2015-03-06 Thread JMJ
On 03/06/2015 01:48 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: I'm with Howard. I use Clonezilla often. Sometimes, I'll have to use GParted, first, to resize partitions, then use Clonezilla to copy stuff over and possible use GParted, again, to resize the partitions on the new drive. OK that's 2 votes for