Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

[Rodney Richison <rodney@rcrcomputing.com>]

I like norton ghost, then fix grub in the mbr because ghost will likely
break it.
After ghosting..
Boot with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do)
Open a terminal window
Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only)
mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1
grub-install /dev/hda

Note your partitions may differ IE /dev/hda2  etc...
Works like a charm..   Note, grub wants the "drive" to install to. Not
the partition.



Tony Godshall wrote:

>According to Jimmy Liang,
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>>Hi All,
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>>I'm in need of some hints here. I have a P4 box running Debian 3.1, with
>>things like Postfix, spamassassin, MySQL, Apache, and other misc
>>softwares.
>>What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon.
>>Can you suggest the best way to do this? I'd like to move it to a larger
>>drive, if possible, but its not critical.
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>...
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>Look at dpkg-repackage- a handy way to migrate apps complete
>with your customized configs to your new box (or to a fleet
>of new boxes).
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