Put both hard drives in the old box, but booting off the old one.
Then use fdisk to partition up the new drive the way you like (don't
forget swap space).
make your filesystems
Then mount up the new partitions in temporary mount dirs and cp -a
the old file-systems to the new hard drive partitio
Ryan,
I've used this method with surprising success on linux and windows system
alike. For example, I have a couple of desktop systems that are clones of my
laptop.
Boot up both systems with the bootnet.img and use "linux rescue" at the boot
prompt. (You'll need a network source for the redha
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:14:03AM +, Ryan wrote:
> I've got hundred of hours invested into my redhat 7.3 box software
> configuration, but I'd like to move the system to a faster CPU, hard drive,
> etc. My problem is that I would like to maintain all the following during
> the switch:
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Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:14 AM
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Subject: Possible: Painless switch of hard drive to new box?
I've got hundred of hours invested into my redhat 7.3 box software
configuration, but I'd like to move the system to a faster CPU, hard
drive,
etc. My problem
I've got hundred of hours invested into my redhat 7.3 box software
configuration, but I'd like to move the system to a faster CPU, hard drive,
etc. My problem is that I would like to maintain all the following during
the switch:
installed software
software configuration changes
various permiss
