Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions. All of them were of value.

James

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com>wrote:

> For moving a system, I always use a Live CD to copy the data from the old
> to new drive.
>
> I get the new drive partitioned and formatted as needed, then copy the
> files from the old drive to the new. Or archive to tar to an external HD.
>
> Something like
>
> tar -cvfp file.tar / /usr /home /etc
>
> Then extract
> tar -xvfp file.tar
>
> You can restore grub from the live CD. If your live CD is the same as the
> installed OS you could at this point chroot to the mounted drive and use
> grub from the system...
>
> chroot /mnt/new-disk
> grub-install
>
> Reading up on tar and grub and making sure you have a good reliable backup
> highly recommended.
>
> It's out of date, but http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/ still
> has some helpful info.
>
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