Re: Setting up a new server.
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 09:28 pm, Seneca wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:20:52PM -0700, Expert User wrote:
> > OOps! I forgot to mention that the disk in the old server has been
> > giving problems and I am getting error messages about /dev/hdb (where
> > the entire debian system is installed! So I also want to use the new
> > disk.
>
> Please don't top post, it gets hard to keep track of what is happening.
>
> So, you take the hd out of the P3, put it into the P4 (or vice versa)
> and you cp everything over (cp -a can be useful).
>
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:13:36PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > hi ya
> > >
> > > take the disk out and put it into the new/faster server..
> > >
> > > - if you had x11 running... you'd need to fix it
> > > - if you use a different NIC card...you'd need to fix it
> > >
> > > c ya
> > > alvin
> > >
> > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Expert User wrote:
> > > > I have a P3 667MHz debian machine working as a server. (Mail, Web &
> > > > NAT box).
> > > > I have another much faster machine(P4 2.4GHz) that I want to make my
> > > > new server.
> > > > How can start using this new machine without losing any configuration
> > > > & data in the existing server?
there was a pretty extended thread about this a couple of months back, about
the optimal way to duplicate an existing installation on to a new disk. check
the archives.
ben
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