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Moving a new HD into a Linux system and keeping the old 'system' | <pre>Moving a new HD into a Linux system and keeping the old 'system' | ||
cd / | cd / | ||
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mkdir /proc on new HD | mkdir /proc on new HD | ||
mkswap /dev/hdaY | mkswap /dev/hdaY | ||
To get the master boot record activated on the hdaX you do: | |||
reboot using Linux CD | reboot using Linux CD | ||
at CD prompt type | at CD prompt type | ||
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reboot | reboot | ||
And you should be done! | And you should be done! | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:29, 3 January 2008
Moving a new HD into a Linux system and keeping the old 'system' cd / tar cvzf root.tar.gz all directories EXCEPT /proc and other symbolically linked mountpoints fdisk and mke2fs the new harddisk mount new harddisk copy root.tar.gz to new HD untar on new HD mkdir /proc on new HD mkswap /dev/hdaY To get the master boot record activated on the hdaX you do: reboot using Linux CD at CD prompt type linux root = /dev/hdaX then continue mount /dev/hdaX /target cd target lilo reboot And you should be done!