Re: transfer to new server

[Keith Wyatt <kew teleport com>]

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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:

> >Hi,
> 
> >my old linux's harddisk has a lot of bad sector, so I buy a new one
> >and install on other PC.
> 
> >How can I transfer the user account (include password) , home
> >directory and mail to new PC ?
> 
> >there are around 150 user and I don't know the password, I think I
> >creat the user account one again...
> 

There is an excellent howto for this on your RedHat CD 
/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.

> 
> 
> Put the disk as a slave on the old system, use fdisk to do the partitioning,
> and use mke2fs to make a filesystem on it.
> 
> Mount it, and copy the entire system to the new disk.
> 
> If you don't wat that, then only do /etc/passwd, etc/shadow, etc/group and
> the /home directory.
> 
> >any suggestion ? Thanks a lot !
> 
> >Regards
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                 Igmar
> 
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