Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks to all. I have given up in favor of doing a clean installation.
>
> Could someone please tell me where from one could get a F7
> installation dvd with a recent kernel?
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 10/21/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 23:15 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Now I have all my F7 partition copied in a partition in the new disk.
>>> Grub is installed in the new disk. However, I always get booted in the
>>> F7 partition in the old disk. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>       
>> If you want the new partition to be the bootable one, you need to use
>> e2label to give it whatever the label was of the original partition, and
>> then remove the label of the original partition.
>>
>> The other thing you may want to check would be /boot/grub/device.map.
>> Make sure the grub devices match the linux devices, and make sure
>> that /etc/grub.conf is pointing to the right device.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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>
>   
    At this point you might just wait until November and get the F8 DVD. 
If you want F7 then get the respin of F7 from the nearest Red Hat mirror.






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