Re: Copying Linux to a new drive

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>]

On 07/29/01 17:47:03 -0700, Santiago del Roi wrote:
> How does one copy a complete Linux install from one hard drive to
> another?  I've tried using the cp command with various parameters,
> but to no avail.  There seems to be lots of special files and
> directories (/proc for example) that cp can't handle.  Any
> suggestions?

Hi there,

I recently did this using the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To as my
guide:

  http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

Everything went smoothly for me (that's saying a lot 8^) ), so you
might want to start there.

GL!
-- 
Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>