The mini-HOWTO for hard drive upgrades covers this pretty well. You can find it here:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Tom tf wrote: > > hey guys, > > I might put in a 6 gig drive in place of the 1.6 gig drive I'm using > now. My current installation works fine (its me thats "broken"!). is > there a way that I can copy this hd to the new one? I only have a swap > and a root partition on this drive, and will probably want to partion > the 6 gig drive further... > > or should I just bite the bullet, and do a fresh install? (I am getting > some good practice....) > --