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On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:20:35 -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: |
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> If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old |
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> you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd |
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> if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should be |
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> able to boot directly off of the new drive. |
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Add something like bs=10240 or you'll be waiting until Christmas for it |
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to complete. |
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You'll also need to edit etc/fstab on the new drive, replacing /dev/hda |
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with /dev/sda throughout. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. |
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