Re: Moving whole system to a new HD
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
11 Mar 1996 08:21:49 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960307210600.155A-100000@coyote.telepac.pt=
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By author: Joao Brazao Ferreira <jbf@telepac.pt>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> Hi, everybody!
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> I'm needing to move my whole system from a 540Mb disk to a new 1.2G=
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> I have seen here a post about how to do it, but, unfortunatly, i didn=
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> save it. If someone, please, could repost it or give me a tip...
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mount -t ext2 /dev/new_disk /mnt
cp -ax / /mnt
mkdir /mnt/mnt
<Edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf>
lilo -r /mnt
Make a boot floppy just in case.
-hpa
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