On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: > Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy > and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be > such a process.
I am not going to address any of the problems you laid out because I have had the most success doing this in a different way. It involves duplicating the file system using cp with the -a switch, which maintains all datestamps and file permissions (I think it stands for archive) I'll describe it to you and see what you think. First create your partitions as you have done. Then create a temporary mounpoint. I use something like /mnt/newdrive. Mount the new root partition at /mnt/newdrive and then create mountpoints for your other partitions there, I think you had /usr and /home. So you would now mount your new /usr and /home at /mnt/newdrive/usr and /mnt/newdrive/home. Now you can simply copy over the existing file system using cp -a. I do it one directory at a time to make sure everything goes smoothly. cp -a /boot /mnt/newdrive cp -a /etc//mnt/newdrive etc., etc. After you are done, make any modifications you need to your /etc/fstab and make sure that you can boot to the new drive by adding an entry to it in your exiting lilo.conf. Once you are booted to the new filesystem, then you can convert to using its LILO by setting up the lilo.conf and re-running lilo from the new filesystem. -- /g
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