hi did it several times:
1. prepare rescue disk 2. put new disk into comp and mount it to /mnt 3. Go back to old disk and as root cd / find . -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt 4. remove old disk from the system, reboot with rescue disk (rescue root=/dev/hdxxx) and fix /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/hostname, ... run lilo OK On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I just tried doing this, and ran into an interesting problem. I think that > it had to > do with copying /lib over, but when it finished untarring the new system, it > just gave > me a login prompt. I logged in, got the message of the day, told me I had no > mail, > and then gave me the login prompt. when I tried to reboot with > ctrl-alt-delete it > asked for the administrator password for maintenance, which didn't seem to > work. > Basically I needed to hit the reset switch, and then install the system from > scratch. > So be careful. > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I want to copy the whole system to another disk to run on another > > computer (after copy it i can take care of configuration). Seems to > > be > > easier and shorter then downloading about 300 megs. > > I was wondering how do i go abou doing this. > > If anyone knows the answear or can point me to an apropriate HOWTO. > > > > Another problem is that it will probably no longer be on drive C and > > would reside together with win95. Where is the information on setting > > this up? > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Oleg Krivosheev, MS 220, BD/Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O.Box 500, Batavia, Illinois, 60510 phone: (630) 840 8460 FAX : (630) 840 6039 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
