[linux-help] Re: Moving to new Hard Drive

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once the ne drive is in place as the boot drive, just run 'lilo'.  That's
it.



On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:14:01PM -0600, Koji Hayakawa wrote:
> 
> If I were using LILO, how would I reset LILO config, and how do I write the
> boot record?  Just rewrite lilo.conf to point the loader to be on the new
> disk before taking off the old one, run lilo once, and reboot with new disk?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Dale W Hodge
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:05 PM
> To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: Moving to new Hard Drive
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently bought a new 40 gig hard drive and am
> > wanting to move my current linux server over to it.  I
> > was planning to attach both hard drives to my system,
> > boot using a rescue disk (so that nothing's running in
> > the background), format the new hard drive, re-create
> > my partitioning scheme, and move the data over with a
> > simple cp -R * type command.
> >
> > Is this the best way to do this, or am I missing
> > something?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Curtis H.
> >
> 
> I've seen some more complicated ways to do it, but that has always worked
> for
> me. IIRC there's even a HOW-TO on the subject.
> 
> --dwh
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