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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:56:40
Message-Id: 8606C3F4-E671-40BB-A6B4-B6CAC5E5ADBE@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question by Stuart Howard
1 On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Howard wrote:
2
3 >
4 > My question :-
5 >
6 > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
7 >
8 > I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems
9 > then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused
10 > to boot, sensed that I had been too obvious so after much googling I
11 > have looked into parted though with no sucess as yet.
12
13 boot from live cd. mount new partitions under /mnt/gentoo (just like
14 an install). chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
15 now you're on your new drive. grub-install /dev/new_hd_device.
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