One exception in the don't need to reboot idea. If you do partitioning from the running system to a drive that's in use, it'll warn can't read partition table, device or resource busy. Then I'd reboot. >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >