On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:20:35 -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:

> If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old
> you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd
> if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should be
> able to boot directly off of the new drive.

Add something like bs=10240 or you'll be waiting until Christmas for it
to complete.

You'll also need to edit etc/fstab on the new drive, replacing /dev/hda
with /dev/sda throughout.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades.

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