Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 14:36 schrieb Darryl Clarke: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should > go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. > > Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so > using it is out of the question. > > Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could transfer my existing > setup to the new drive? > > Old Disk: 8gb /dev/hda > New Disk: 80gb /dev/sda (currently plugged into USB2, to be moved to > /dev/hda) Bootloader: Grub > Filesystems: ReiserFS > > Hopefully there's a simple solution ;) Thanks! > > -- > Darryl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://smartssa.com / http://darrylclarke.com
This is really simple to do. You don't need tools like ghost. You can do everything with linux' native utils. Just do the following steps: Plug in your new disk and partition it to your needs. (i'll assume the new disk is /dev/sda) Reboot after partitioning Make a filesystem on the new partition (i'd choose reiserfs or ext3) mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 Mount the new filesystem mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/new_disk Copy the whole old disks contents to the new disk and preserve all file attributes cp -a / /mnt/new_disk Open a new shell and chroot to the filesystem on the new disk chroot /mnt/new_disk Install a boot loader on the MBR of the new disk (if you have Grub) grub-install /dev/sda Pull out your old disk and insert your new disk. Reboot and pray ;-) HTH -Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
