Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:18:27 +1100
Felix Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:36:43 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote
> (<[🔎] 1136327803.8961.82.camel@localhost.localdomain>):
>
> > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:19 -0800, Jimmy Liang wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> SNIP
> >>
> >> 3. If and when I do need to exchange it for the larger drive, how would I
> >> go about doing that without any reinstalls?
> >
> > google for "copy hard drive" or similar words.
>
> >
> I took this advice and found:
>
>
> ,----[ hd.txt ]-
> | Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To
> | By Yves Bellefeuille <yan@storm.ca>,
> | and Konrad Hinsen <hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr>
> |
> | v2.11, 13 April 2000
> `----
>
> The instructions are detailed and within the scope of rank amateurs.
>
> Regrettably, they are slightly out-of-date. Specifically, they
> envisage the use of ext2 file systems and provide detailed
> instructions for configuring the "lilo" boot routine.
>
> Are there any more recent texts that spell out how to configure
> "grub" for booting the copied system?
The grub manual might be enough :)
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/
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