> -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert L Cochran > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:05 AM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Harddrive Question > > > Let me see if I understand this. > > 1. You have a new, or anyhow a new-er computer. You put a new > hard drive > in this computer. > > 2. You installed Red Hat 9 on the new hard drive. > > 3. You copied the hard drive from your old machine onto a 200 > Gb backup > drive. > > 4. You removed the hard drive from your old machine and > installed it in > your new machine. > > 5. Your goal is now to copy the contents of the old hard drive to the > new hard drive which has Red Hat 9 on it. But, you don't know how. > > Am I correct? > > If i am right, the solution is fairly straightforward but it takes > careful study and even some practice to carry it out correctly. I am > assuming you did not overwrite your old drive by accident and you are > protecting it from being overwritten. Here is what you do: > > 1. Visit http://www.tldp.org/ (The Linux Documentation > Project) 2. Locate the Hard Drive Upgrade How-To. 3. Print > the How-To and study it. It tells you how to copy an entire > Linux system from one hard drive to another. > 4. Practice following the instructions. Remember that you > want an ext3 > file system, which is the default on Red Hat 9, but if you are > adventurous and are ready to overcome some technical issues with the > initrd image, you can have JFS, ReiserFS, or whatever other > file system > strikes your fancy. Just be prepared to provide all support > for your choice. > > 5. And now for my disclaimer: if something goes wrong with this > procedure, don't blame me. You assume all risk for your > actions. So use > your own best judgment. > > Good luck! > > Bob > > > > > Jake McHenry wrote: > > I just installed a new harddrive a new machine and installed RH9. I > > backed up everything from my other machine onto a 200gb > harddrive, and > > put it into the new machine to copy the files from. > > > > My problem is that I forgot where my partitions are located at for > > /etc/fstab. > > > > Is there any magic way to re-generate this file to auto find my > > partitions? > > > > Thanks, > > Jake > > > > > > -- > Bob Cochran > Greenbelt, Maryland, USA > http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/ > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike> -list > I had the harddrive in the machine, not being used. So I copied the files that I wanted (config files, tar files, etc) onto the harddrive and put it in the other machine. Now I can't access it. I want to mount it just like a cdrom, etc.. But it won't let me. The info I got from parted was: Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 194474.355 primary linux-swap I have no idea in hell how it became a swap partition, it wasn't this after noon..... Anything I can do? Thanks, Jake -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
