On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:45:51PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote: > Nope if you make the new partition on the second drive and copy data from > the first all you do is boot in with boot disk when you changed hdb to hda > and run lilo. > Have done this multiple times and its allways worked. > you may need to acc lba32 to the top of lilo.conf so that it'll work with Most of the time you don't need to fiddle with drive parameters. I never had problems with that on generic motherboards in over 7 years. > all drives but once you've done that you should be set to tgo. > I'd rather spend 5 minutes doing this than to spend 20 doing a reinstall. RedHat comes with and let's you select Grub lately. I find it better a OS loader since it doesn't require any program execution in order to include new kernel or OS in it's configuration. All you need to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.txt and add similar to whatever you would under LILO. If there is boot problem you can select a different kernel from the grub command line which is not possible under lilo. > You can't do this on a running system though you have to do this from boot > and root disks. > Just fdisk the new drive the way you like and format new partition and > then mount the drives on different mount points and then do a cp -ap . > /new_drive > from with in the / directory of old drive and everything should work. > Remember to reboot between the format and fdisk process though. No need to reboot the computer after format. I never do it (Linux, or any Unix) and all works fine. The idea of rebooting after running fdisk (partitioning) or formatting is the most primitive leftover from DOS days you can imagine. I could never and do not understand why the hell would one need to reboot the machine after a partition on the drive has been changed? Shouldn't we reboot after swapping removable cartridge disks, floppies, tapes, ... That's like saying you have to turn off and on the engine each time you shift the gear in your car or change a passenger in a taxi cab. > Tommy > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Yes, all the hardware except the drive is the same. But, that's just the > > point. Am I wrong about this? Aren't their drive specific params to an > > install? > > > > Second, is installation really that hard? Seems it should be cleaner to > > simply install then move the data, including appropriate /etc > > configurations, back over. Certainly seems more secure and less > > experimental to me. > > > > But, I've been wrong before. > > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Tommy Moore wrote: > > > > > Hi thre. > > > Why shouldn't someone back up the system like what she wants to do if > > > dropping it on to a different drive. > > > She is after all going to use the same machine and even if she wasn't in a > > > lot of cases it would still work. > > > Would save her a lot of work in the process. > > > All she's doing is getting a larger drive from what I understand. > > > > > > Tommy -- Rafael