Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions. All of them were of value. James On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com>wrote: > For moving a system, I always use a Live CD to copy the data from the old > to new drive. > > I get the new drive partitioned and formatted as needed, then copy the > files from the old drive to the new. Or archive to tar to an external HD. > > Something like > > tar -cvfp file.tar / /usr /home /etc > > Then extract > tar -xvfp file.tar > > You can restore grub from the live CD. If your live CD is the same as the > installed OS you could at this point chroot to the mounted drive and use > grub from the system... > > chroot /mnt/new-disk > grub-install > > Reading up on tar and grub and making sure you have a good reliable backup > highly recommended. > > It's out of date, but http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/ still > has some helpful info. > > -- > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us > IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080919/9384fed0/attachment-0001.htm