Ideally you'll want to boot off of an emergency disk of some sort...(probably the redhat install cd will work in emergency boot mode...)
Then mount both disks (or all the partitions of both disks). Don't forget to use the proper flags with cp. You'll probably want to use -a. After this upgrading should work fine. Make sure you boot the new disk and run rh 7 first to make sure you copied everything properly. -Sam On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:20:03PM -0700, Mike Davison wrote: > > I've done this sort of thing. Sure, it will work. > > > On Friday 09 August 2002 04:05 pm, James Pifer wrote: > > Still looking for suggestions here. Thanks, James > > > > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 08:11, James Pifer wrote: > > > I have a RH 7.0 machine with a failing hard drive. I was thinking of > > > getting a new drive and also upgrading to the current RH release. > > > > > > Can suggest how to go about this upgrade? > > > How do I get the data from the old drive to the new one? > > > > > > **** Will this work???? **** > > > Can I stick the new drive in as a Slave > > > Mount the new drive as something, like /disk2 > > > Copy everything from / to /disk2 > > > Install the new disk as the Master > > > Install new RH over the top > > > > > > Will RH see the new drive as an upgrade? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Sam Ockman, Chairman and CEO Tel: 415-358-2600 Fax: 415-896-6742 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN PENGUIN COMPUTING - Simplifying the Solution Process [tm] www.penguincomputing.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
