Re: how make the debian bootable

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Here's what I did when I got a new hard disk recently:

1.  Booted Etch net-install disc.
2.  Set up LVM using rescue-mode.
3.  Created symlinks in ramdisk root filesystem to necessary libraries
on old, source partition so rsync could run (it'd be nice if rsync and
the required libs were on the Etch install CD).
4.  rsync'ed data from old partition to new LVM partition.
5.  grub-install'ed on new, non-LVM /boot partition (hd(0,0) or /dev/hda1).
6.  Edited /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab on LVM / partition to reflect changes.
7.  Copied /boot/grub to /boot/boot/grub (required for non-/ boot
partition, since GRUB always looks in "boot/grub" in boot partition).
8.  Edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect changes.
9.  Booted from new hard disk.

IIRC, all of the documentation I needed was already in /usr/share/doc
and the man pages, though I did end up searching Google for a few
things that I actually ended up finding only in /usr/share/doc.

Hope this helps.  (Though Debian is really a help-yourself system, too.)