<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions. All of them were of value.<br><br>James<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Andrew Zbikowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andyzib@gmail.com">andyzib@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">For moving a system, I always use a Live CD to copy the data from the old to new drive. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>Something like <br><br>tar -cvfp file.tar / /usr /home /etc <br><br>Then extract<br>tar -xvfp file.tar <br><br>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... <br>
<br>chroot /mnt/new-disk<br>grub-install<br><br>Reading up on tar and grub and making sure you have a good reliable backup highly recommended. <br clear="all"><br>It's out of date, but <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/" target="_blank">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/</a> still has some helpful info. <br>
<br>-- <br>Andrew S. Zbikowski | <a href="http://andy.zibnet.us" target="_blank">http://andy.zibnet.us</a><br>IT Outhouse Blog Thing | <a href="http://www.itouthouse.com" target="_blank">http://www.itouthouse.com</a><br>
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