1. Boot knoppix cd.
2. Mount your original drive -- mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/orig_10gig_drive
3. partition your clone drive -- cfdisk /dev/hdb (or wherever your drive need to be mounted from)
a. I have just one partition, so if you have /tmp or /home or whatever on separate partitions, then you will need to adjust these instructions accordingly, so that your new drive has a similar layout -- i.e. if your original drive has one partition for linux and a swap partition, make the clone the same adjusting the sizes to accommodate the full 20gig drive. That includes making the clone partitions in the same order on the drive.
b. don't forget to make your main/root partition "bootable" and your swap partition as a type "83"
c. you can check the partitions on the original drive with -- fdisk -l
4. format your clone drive -- mke2fs -v /dev/hdb1 ( add -j for an ext3 filesystem )
5. mount your clone drive -- mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/clone_20gig_drive
6. copy all files from old drive to clone -- cp --preserve=all -r /mnt/orig_10gig_drive/* /mnt/clone_20gig_drive/.
7. create /mnt/clone_20gig_drive/lilo_tmp_hdb.conf with something like:
boot=/dev/hdb disk=/dev/hdb root=/dev/hdb1 map=/mnt/clone_20gig_drive/boot/map # I don't remember... install=/mnt/clone_20gig_drive/boot/boot.b # copy from host #loader=/mnt/usbDrive2/boot/chain.b # -"- #backup=/dev/null vga=normal default=linux lba32 prompt timeout=100 delay=100 image=/mnt/clone_20gig_drive/vmlinuz optional label=linux append="root=/dev/hda1" # kernel options read-only
8. Then run -- lilo -v -C /mnt/clone_20gig_drive/lilo_tmp_hdb.conf
9. Remove your original 10 gig drive, and replace with new 20 gig drive, changing the drive jumper as needed.
10. boot new system.
Good luck.
Mark
Paul wrote:
I need to move my desktop from a (full) 10G drive to a (spare) 20G drive.
The ideal results would be copy everything over, then run lilo on the new drive, then it would boot up looking just like the old one.
Some googling found me an out of date HOWTO and a few sites with instructions that were a little vague, so I thought I would ask the experts.
Has anybody done this?
Is it easy - not to hard - increadibly difficult - don't even think about it?
How do I do it - or better yet - a site with almost idiot proof instructions.
What are the things that can go wrong?
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