Janina Sajka wrote:
> Cheryl:
>
> You should not think in terms of transferring your linux. The linux
> operating system itself should be reinstalled.
Crap. This is Unix not Winblows. Copying the entire OS is easy and
almost trivial, as outlined in my previous post and the mentioned HOWTO.
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From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "speakup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: transfering linux system to another hard drive
> I apologize for the cross-po
Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You should not think in terms of transferring your linux. The linux
> operating system itself should be reinstalled.
That's plainly not true! Why re-doing everything that was already
accomplished? There are several ways to do this, I already mailed this
Hi Cheryl,
Transferring a Linux system is in my experience as simple as copying the
contents.
1. Boot up with a boot disk
2. Mount the source partitions of your failing drive under /src/ (ie
/src/var, /src/usr, ... if you have split up your Linux tree in
partitions) and the destination pa
Cheryl:
You should not think in terms of transferring your linux. The linux
operating system itself should be reinstalled.
Your data and configuration files, on the other hand, should be
transferred. The best mechanism is likely some kind of temporary storage
device, and an upload to someplace
I apologize for the cross-post, but I'm trying to get info as soon as
possible; even if somebody has just seen this on one of these lists and
can steer me toward the correct archive it would be appreciated.
My hard drive with linux is failing; I have just obtained a 20gig drive
which will have both
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