Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:49:21AM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
> I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on the motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller card.
>
> I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI controller, but the installer didn't recognize the card, so I was forced to install Debian to the old drive. Then, the installer installed a kernel that _did_ recognize the PCI controller, so now that Debian is installed to the wrong place I am able to partition and use the drive where I wanted Debian to be in the first place!
>
> I need advice from experienced users on how to move a working Debian from here:
>
> / /dev/hda7
> swap /dev/hda5
>
> to here:
>
> /dev/hdg5 /
> /dev/hdg2 /boot
> /dev/hdg6 /usr
> /dev/hdg7 /tmp
> /dev/hdg8 /var
> /dev/hdg9 /home
>
bash# mount /dev/hdg5 /mnt; mount /dev/hdg2 /mnt/boot/ .... and so on
then..
bash# tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -)
Change the root of the system.
chroot /mnt
And then modify grub config files in order to boot from your new hdg drive [ don't
use grub so I can't help you ]. And execute grub? [ ok I would execute
lilo to save the changes in the MBR of your new /dev/hdg drive ]
p.s: Be sure of having a swap partition in your new drive.
Regards!
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Matías Rollán
<cygar@safesource.com.ar>
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