Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

[KS <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

Seeker5528 wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:51:10 -0500
> KS <lists04@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which
>> came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The
>>  80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with different
>> partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /home, /tmp, /var and a couple of others
>> for data storage.
>>
>> I have ordered a 320GB SATA disk (along with a Promise controller card)
> 
> My normal method of dealing with this is to boot from a live CD,
> usually System Rescue CD or RIP:
> 
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
> http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
> 
> : create the partitions you want, at the sizes you want, format them,
> change to the /mnt directory on the cd, make directories for each drive
> (olddrive and newdrive). Mount all the partitions reletive to the way
> the are when running from the drive.
> 
> Root of the old drive mounted at /mnt/olddrive, home on the old drive
> mounted at /mnt/olddrive/home, etc..., and the same for the new drive.
> 
> With all relevant partitions mounted you would then do:
> 
> cp -av /mnt/olddrive/* /mnt/newdrive
> 
> : After all files are copied, edit the fstab file on the new drive as
> necessary.
> 
> I don't know what issues there might be with the SATA getting the
> system to boot from the new drive. If it's not an issue to keep the old
> and new drive both hooked up, I expect it shouldn't be a huge of an
> issue to boot into the old installation and sort out any of the
> remaining stuff that needs to be done.
> 
> Later, Seeker
> 
> 

Thanks. That is the method I found after doing some search on google.
Seems to be the one with least risk :).

Thanks again,
/KS