On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote: > Probably the easiest way is to get yourself a usb 2.5'' sata case. Get > the old drive out of your laptop and put the new one in. Boot with a > live cd (knoppix, debian) and make the partitions to your liking on the > new drive. Then, mount both drives and do a cp -a /media/olddrive > /media/newdrive. > Finally, chroot to /media/newdrive, do a grub-install /dev/sda (or > whatever other device your new drive is mounted on), and check that if > you have a swap partition the pointers in /etc are still okay. When > done, reboot. If things fail, you'll always have your old drive as a > safe backup.
thanks for that idea as well. that one seems quite doable and foolproof. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f8d5d4f31003200835q1184b64fg3a603646981df...@mail.gmail.com
