(solved) Re: new drive = new install?

["David A." <achoice@gmail.com>]

> > What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to
> > another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive
> > and "copy everything" from the old one?
>
> Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available,
> one being <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html>.

Thanx! I managed to get the work done.

The article is 7 years old but it lays out the main line.
Something missing in the instructions was that the "-p" flag should be
used in the "cp"-command to preserve rights.
And I use grub, not lilo. But a simple "grub-install", at least on my
debian, did the trick to set up grub on the new disk.

I'm supprised the transfer to a new disk was so painless. I even
stepped up to ext3 on the new drive.

thanx, david.