I performed the operation hinted at at the Subject line.
At the moment the 40GB and the 250GB disks are clones, but the
divergence has already started, as I am using the 250GB hard disk and
the 40GB hard disk is not benefitting from the new memories and
experiences that the 250GB one is beginning to have.
I had some problems, which I'd like to report here.
The installation is Debian Sarge.
1. I somehow failed to find the obvious way to install grub in the boot
sector, so I went through the roundabout method of installing a minimal
Debian installation on the new hard disk, followed by erasing all
installed files.
The minimal Debian installation process fulfilled also the following
objectives:
- Partitioning the hard disk.
- Installation of the desired filesystems (ext2 and ext3) in the
partitions.
However, next time I would like to use a simpler method to accomplish
the purposes of grub installation, new hard disk partitioning and
initialization of the partitions.
2. The new hard disk's partitioning scheme was somewhat different from
the old one, so I could not just copy over all files and reboot from the
new hard disk. I had to edit the /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst
files to conform to the new partitioning scheme.
3. The file copying operation consisted of two steps:
- creation of a mount point in /tmp (say, /tmp/xxnewharddisk), mounting
the root partition of the new hard disk, creation of mounting points in
that root partition and mounting the other partitions in that root
partition.
- copying of files over to the new hard disk, subdirectory of the root
directory by subdirectory of the root directory. This was necessary so
that I can skip /tmp, /proc and /sys. The actual copying was performed
by rsync.
--- Omer
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