On Fri, 27 May 2005, David Witbrodt wrote:
I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on the
motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller card.
I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI controller, but the
installer didn't recognize the card, so I was forced to install Debian to the
old drive. Then, the installer installed a kernel that _did_ recognize the PCI
controller, so now that Debian is installed to the wrong place I am able to
partition and use the drive where I wanted Debian to be in the first place!
I need advice from experienced users on how to move a working Debian from here:
/ /dev/hda7
swap /dev/hda5
to here:
/dev/hdg5 /
/dev/hdg2 /boot
/dev/hdg6 /usr
/dev/hdg7 /tmp
/dev/hdg8 /var
/dev/hdg9 /home
You will need to setup /etc/fstab and grub appropriately, these are the
main disk dependent settings IIRC.
As a newbie, I'm in danger of doing some real stupid things. My first guess at
a solution would involve the following steps:
1. Copy (recursive) each corresponding directory to the appropriate partitions
Recursive copy isn't the best solution since you need to preserve symbolic
links, ownership and special files. IIRC you should do cp -a as root, but
check the man page for cp just to make sure.
You also don't want to copy /proc and if you are using 2.6 kernel, /sys.
If you are not using devfs or udev I think the MAKEDEV script (or
somthings similar which sits in /dev IIRC) is a better way then recursive
copy of the devices.
> 2. Modify certain config files to point at the new
partitions
3. Modify grub settings, especially 'menu.lst' and use grub-install to write
the MBR on
the new drive. (I am going to alter the BIOS settings so that the new drive
boots first -- the controller card has its own BIOS and supports this feature
-- but that means the original install of grub to the old drive's MBR will no
longer operate.)
Help, either in the form of recommended steps or references to the appropriate
documents, would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Dave Witbrodt
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