Re: How to move/copy linux installation ...

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:29:38 GMT

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:06:02 -0500, Useko Netsumi <_no-spam_usenets@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> from one disk(a smaller one) to a new one(bigger)? And how to make the new
> disk bootable?
>
> Thanks
>
>

partition and format the new disk, flagging the bootable partition

mount the disk and use cp -a to copy everything over, and I'd do
it one paritition/top_directory at a time, though there is technically
no reason not to do it all at once.

I did it like this:

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 mnt

mkdir /mnt/boot

/boot# cp -a * /mnt/boot

Then edit /etc/fstab on the new box and run lilo 

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