Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Chris Lale wrote: > Fernando Cacciola wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's >> running out of space. >> What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? >> >> > http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Cloning_a_hard_disc may help. > I do

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread Chris Lale
Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Cloning_a_hard_disc may help. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/1/06, loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Generally I boot from a LiveCD (Kurumim,Knoppix etc.) > create the partitions on the new HD with the same size as the original, How to ensure same size? > but located in places where i can easily expand them. > > I use parted to move them around and c

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-03-01 Thread loos
Em Ter, 2006-02-28 às 17:26 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: > Fernando Cacciola wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out > > of space. > > What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? > > > > TIA > > > > Fernand

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-02-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi, I have Debian Sarge, full of stuff, installed on a HD, but it's running out of space. What's the simplest way to transfer the entire system to a bigger HD? TIA Fernando Cacciola create the new bigger partition then: cd / cp -ax * / H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Trasnfering an intalled system to another hd

2006-02-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
The procedure I normally use is to connect the new drive to the same system, create partitions of identical size to the existing system partitions (root, /usr, /var /opt etc) and any user partitions whose size does not need to change, and make new partitions out of the additional space. Then boot