Re: copy hard drive

From: Bob Tennent (BobT_at_cs.queensu.ca)
Date: 09/01/03 

Date: 1 Sep 2003 12:22:34 GMT

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 02:57:04 GMT, Rob wrote:

> I have a old 6 gig H/D that is about to give up the ghost. I have Mandrake
> 9.1 on it. I bought a new 40 gig and would like to copy over the 6 gig
> COMPLETELY, system files, lilo, everything. Then I could remove the 6 and
> boot up off the 40 just like I do now. Is this posible? If so, how? I know
> how to set them up hardware wise it's just the copy that I don't know.

You first have to partition the new drive and set up file systems on
those partitions. The best tool for this is parted. Remember to create a
swap partition as well.

Then mkdir /new and mount the root partition of the new drive there.
Create sub-directories as necessary for the other non-swap partitions,
such as

/new/boot
/new/home

etc., and mount those as well.

Then copy your existing file systems (not including /new!) to /new using
cp -a. Don't copy /proc but remember to mkdir /new/proc. You'll probably
want to edit /new/etc/fstab and /new/etc/lilo.conf.

You can then do

chroot /new

run lilo and re-boot, but first make sure you have a working boot floppy
or CD to handle a possible kernel panic or lilo failure :+)

Bob T.

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