Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:15:13PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: Greetings, As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or generally have available to me offline so I can get my system back up and running in quick order. Then it occured to me it might be possible to avoid a reinstall completly and just ghost from the ide over to the scsi. Is it possible to: 1. boot the installation floppy 2. launch a shell 3. bit by bit copy everything from the ide drive over to the scsi 3. go into the scsi drive and mod lilo to point to it 4. install onto the mbr 5. reboot Is that possible? Or would I be better off just going to a new install? yes, that is how i upgraded a disk once, i used cpio and find. worked quite nicely. the only part you might have troubles with is getting lilo installed right, so have a boot floppy around just in case. just boot it with root=/dev/sda1 and then lilo will install right for sure. and most importantly: don't forget to edit /etc/fstab !! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpUKmw2JTpKK.pgp Description: PGP signature
cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system
Greetings, As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or generally have available to me offline so I can get my system back up and running in quick order. Then it occured to me it might be possible to avoid a reinstall completly and just ghost from the ide over to the scsi. Is it possible to: 1. boot the installation floppy 2. launch a shell 3. bit by bit copy everything from the ide drive over to the scsi 3. go into the scsi drive and mod lilo to point to it 4. install onto the mbr 5. reboot Is that possible? Or would I be better off just going to a new install? Regards, Wm pgpCRxjI2Ni5V.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system
:: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:15:13 -0500, William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is it possible to: 1. boot the installation floppy 2. launch a shell 3. bit by bit copy everything from the ide drive over to the scsi 3. go into the scsi drive and mod lilo to point to it 4. install onto the mbr 5. reboot Is that possible? Or would I be better off just going to a new install? I did something similar. When I installed woody in this box, I got a friend's HD, copied his /usr, / and /var partitions, etc to my HD. Then, I just had to configure lilo and I had a woody box running. (I also had to delete his user account and add mine, but you won't need to do that) It's worth trying... Just don't forget tto add all the SCSI stuff into the kernel. Regards, Wm HTH, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
