On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:09:27PM -0700, Scott Merritt wrote:
> I was wondering how hard it would be for a newbie to move a server setup
> from one machine to another, on a new hard drive. I'm running on a 2 gig
> hard drive but would like to upgrade the server and drive to something
> bigger.
Raoul Anderson wrote:
> NP, being a relative newbie myself, I am glad I have come across something
> on this list that I can actually answer! ;-)
Kind of fun to contribute huh? BTW you need to copy the /etc/shadow file along
with the /etc/passwd if you are using shadow passwords as is the defau
ubject: RE: Moving to new machine...
Oh man, thanks for the warning. I wouldn't have been to happy finding this
nasty suprise like you did!
-Original Message-
From: Raoul Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:39 PM
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Subject: RE
-Original Message-
From: Raoul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: RE: Moving to new machine...
>I am in the same boat. I was going to ghost the image over (which should
>work witho
Oh man, thanks for the warning. I wouldn't have been to happy finding this
nasty suprise like you did!
-Original Message-
From: Raoul Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Moving to new machine...
I am in the
I am in the same boat. I was going to ghost the image over (which should
work without problems) but I decided to try it the way you are suggesting
and just copying over files as you have suggested, and as soon as I took
over the /etc/passwd file it came to a grinding halt and told me I did not
ex
