Re: [SLE] moving my current installation
- From: Phil Burness <pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:19:13 +0100
On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:03, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 17:41 schrieb Phil Burness:This is why this list is so great - not only do I get the answer I want, but
I have a fully up to date v9.3 system on a 40Gb harddrive. I want to
transfer this installation to a new 160Gb harddrive. I want to remove the
old 40Gb and trash it. (It's several years old an I want to change it
before it fails). Question is how do I transfer the system over including
grub etc.
Phil
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Phil Burness
Linux User since 1991 - currently using SuSE 9.3
Warrington - United Kingdom
There has been a (german) instruction manual once (2005) on the novell
page, but I can't find it anymore online. However, I have a copy saved, so
I try to translate from there:
The given example assumes:
- you have an old disk /dev/hda (1. IDE-HD) and
- a new SCSI-disk /dev/sda (1. HD on SCSI-Bus)
- root partition is /dev/hda5 (1. logical drive in the extended partition)
- the new root partition shall be /dev/sda1
- the new disk is already formated and the file system is installed on it
Boot with the resue system CD, log in and make two Mountpoints:
mkdir /OLD
mkdir /NEW
Mount both partitions:
mount /dev/hda5 /OLD
mount /dev/sda1 /NEW
check, if
* /dev/hda5 really is the correctt root-partition
* /dev/sda1 is empty
change to the /OLD-directory:
cd /OLD
enter the following tar-command:
tar -cSp --numeric-owner --atime-preserve -f - . | ( cd /NEW && tar
-xSpv --atime-preserve -f - )
With this command all files should be brought from /OLD to /NEW and
links and rights should stay preserved. Make sure to type the command with
all spaces, e.g. before and after the dot, after the opening parenthesis,
before the closing parenthesis.
adjust some important files to the new root partition:
* edit /NEW/etc/fstab according to the new situation, e.g.:
old entry: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
new entry: /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
* eventually also adjust /NEW/etc/lilo.conf . You can only start
LILO after booting with the new partition.
Change to the root directory and umount both partitions:
cd /
umount /OLD
umount /NEW
Reboot using CD1 or the Suse DVD and start the rescue system,
from there start the "installed system" with entering the new
root-partition (here: /dev/sda1 )
After the boot open Yast -> configure the boot menu, change the
"Linux"-entry to the new root partition. The instruction sais, that Yast
wants you to rename the entry (say from "Linux" to "Suse" or whatever) -
but I don't know, if this is still true.
Now you should be able to boot from the new drive.
If you use LILO you have to adjust /etc/lilo.conf and restart LILO
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As mentioned, this is old information. But I've used it to move my Suse
10.0 install from one disk to another and it worked (partition names, files
system and fstab entries adapted, of course).
Eventually better wait if somebody on the list shouts "stop, this doesn't
work anymore!" before you go on with these instructions ;-)
regards
Daniel
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people even take the trouble to translate it for me - Fantastic and thanks.
I have followed the instructions but the tar command exited due to errors..
It seems I have some files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper/TOC that root does not
have permissions for (??) tar gave permissions denied message. (same for
some .h files in /usr/src/linux/include/asm-arm)
Also, there seems to be some files in /usr/src/linux/include that tar
compained 'couldn't stat' before exiting.
How do I get rid of the files in TOC or change their permissions?
What is the 'couldn't stat message and how do I eliminate it?
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Phil Burness
Linux User since 1991 - currently using SuSE 9.3
Warrington - United Kingdom
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