Re: transfering a linux installation on a larger disk

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

My standard solution is to put the new drive in the machine with the
drive it will replace, partition it as I wish, mount each partition in
turn and use cpio to copy each of the respective partitions to its new
home, modify /etc/fstab on the new / partition to match how things
_will_ be, make a boot floppy (dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0),
shutdown, put the new drive in place (don't forget to change
master/slave jumpers), boot from floppy, modify /etc/lilo.conf as
needed, and run lilo. Reboot.

I can provide more details if desired.  Trying to save bandwidth.

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 08:30:35AM +0100, Franck SGARD wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I am currently using Linux RedHat 6.0. I've already installed Linux on a 
> 3Go partition of a 4Go IDE hard disk. Also, on the same disk I have a 1Go 
> FAT16 partition for Windows 95. 
> 
> I want now to replace my 4Go disk with  a 18Go IDE disk. Is there a way to
> avoid reinstalling linux on this new disk ? In particular I want to create a 
> larger partition of 10Go instead of 3Go for Linux. Can I just backup the 
> existing installation and restore it on the 10Go partition ?
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> Franck Sgard
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Cheers,
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