Re: VMware

[John Summerfield <summer OS2 ami com au>]

> 
> Hehe, no, I'm not that brave (or stupid <g>)... I'm going to wait until 2.4 
> gets released proper before I change anything. There doesn't seem any point 
> in customising my Linux installation too much at the moment since I'm going 
> to have to delete it all and start again when I get my new hard disk.
> 

>
You shouldn't need to do more than copy it and update /etc/fstab.

 
Partition and mount your new disk, say under /root/r

Mount any additional partitions - you may have
/root/t
/root/t/boot
/root/t/usr
/root/t/home

then copy with something like this:
tar -cl -C / . boot usr home | tar x -C /root/t

The l option on the first tar stops it trying to copy mounted filesystems 
including the target - copying that is VERY time-consuming.