On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:15:13PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings, > > As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware > arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or > generally have available to me offline so I can get my system back up and > running in quick order. Then it occured to me it might be possible to avoid > a reinstall completly and just "ghost" from the ide over to the scsi. Is it > possible to: > > 1. boot the installation floppy > 2. launch a shell > 3. bit by bit copy everything from the ide drive over to the scsi > 3. go into the scsi drive and mod lilo to point to it > 4. install onto the mbr > 5. reboot > > Is that possible? Or would I be better off just going to a new install? yes, that is how i upgraded a disk once, i used cpio and find. worked quite nicely. the only part you might have troubles with is getting lilo installed right, so have a boot floppy around just in case. just boot it with root=/dev/sda1 and then lilo will install right for sure. and most importantly: don't forget to edit /etc/fstab !! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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