I just did this a week or so ago. The way I did it was this: 1) Put the new hard drive in as a slave. 2) Used parted to create the filesystem. (parted also has the ability to copy a filesystem but I couldn't get this to work) 3) Copy the file system with the cp command. I can't remember if I used any special command line options. I think I did it a directory at a time. Do not try to copy the /proc directory. The information in that directory is created at system startup I believe. 4) Make the /proc directory using mkdir 5) I'm not sure how to do this part if you are using lilo. If you are using grub, check the man pages for how to create a boot disk and transfer grub to a new drive. Be sure to write down the commands because you will be booting from that disk. 6) Once the grub boot disk is created, remove the old hard drive and put the new drive as master. 7) Boot off the floppy and follow the commands to transfer grub to the hard drive. 8) Remove the floppy and reboot. You should be done.
Now, if you have Ghost, you can just copy the drive with that. It works for me. <quote who="Sergio Espinoza"> > Greetings great wizards, > > Just a regular newbie eager to hear your advice :) > > I currently have my Red Hat Linux 9.0 instalation on a > 10GB HD, but, I want to change this instalation to a > 40GB HD. > > I want to know if it is posible to 'transfer' my > current instalation to the new drive in a way that I > won't lose the already downloaded RHN updates. > > I wonder, it's this the best way to aproach this issue > or is better to do a clean installl and D/L the RHN > updates again? > > Thanks in advance, > > Sergio Espinoza Dien > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
