Re: Install from USB floppy?
If you can get the hard drives both plugged in at once, you should
be able to partition/mkfs then copy everything to the other drive.
cp -a --one-file-system /* /mnt/newdrive
(and repeat for each partition).
Then it should be as simple as booting with the rescue disk,
and re-running lilo. (after removing the old drive and changing
whatever settings are required on the new one to replace it).
I've done this (not with a laptop) but with desktops numerous times,
without a problem.
Kai Martens wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Got an old but nice SONY VAIO PCG-Z505F (Japanese model). Thinking about
> just plugging a bigger hard drive in means reinstalling my debian system.
> First time around I happily partitioned the disk and erased the
> preinstalled windoze system only to find out that it cannot copy the
> kernel it is running from the rescue floppy to the hard drive... Had an
> old Toshiba laptop to get a system on that disk at the time, but not any
> more now. In the meantime the kernels have USB support and I can use the
> USB floppy as a SCSI device.
>
> If I put my hand-rolled kernel with the required USB support onto the
> rescue disk - will I be able to install a new system on the new harddrive?
>
> If not: Any other ideas? I have a PCMCIA SCSI card and SCSI disk that
> could be used, but no CD!
>
> Thanks in advance, Kai
>
>
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