Re: cloning my debian install onto my new hard disk?

[Johan Ehnberg <johan@ehnberg.net>]

There are a few important steps. I did this on my little server and it 
worked just the way it should. Read

http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html

and follow the instructions there. It's very straight-forward and not 
too difficult. Takes some time, though.

If you need more info, just ask.

Hope this helps!

/johan


Britton wrote:
> I would like to copy my entire install onto my new larger hard disk, then
> set it up to boot there.  I have the old disk as master and the new as
> slave, and I've mounted the slave and used cp -a on the top level
> directories. The cp -a of 'initrd' directory complained a bit though, and
> I'm not sure what steps are best to take to make the new drive the one
> that gets booted from/mounted as root.  Does anyone have software to
> recommend other than cp?  What should I do after cp to make initrd setup
> work right?
>
> A report of a recend (good) experience with this task would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Britton Kerin
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