Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:03:05AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: My PC has a 500GB hard disk, and I want to migrate it to a 2TB hard disk. The new hard disk has been formatted to have two physical partitions, one serves as /boot and the other is an encrypted LVM volume, which has its own division

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On Feb 19, 2012 4:37 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Omer Zak wrote on Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:03:05 +0200: My PC has a 500GB hard disk, and I want to migrate it to a 2TB hard disk. The new hard disk has been formatted to have two physical partitions, one serves as /boot

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Omer Zak
Thanks, Daniel and Amos, for your suggestions. However they address the wrong part of my problem. All my regular files were already copied to the new hard disk and it was properly set up. The only problem is to boot from it. I successfully set up grub2 to boot from the new disk's boot partition

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Thanks, Daniel and Amos, for your suggestions. However they address the wrong part of my problem. All my regular files were already copied to the new hard disk and it was properly set up. The only problem is to boot from it. I

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Thanks, Daniel and Amos, for your suggestions. However they address the wrong part of my problem. All my regular files were already copied to the new hard disk and it was properly set up. The only problem is to boot from it. I

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Tzafrir, Thanks for your war story. On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 18:34 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: update-initramfs -u The twist is that I need to boot some kernel to run it. What I did was: 1. Leave both disks connected to the PC. 2. Boot from the old (500GB) disk. 3. Mount the partitions of

Re: Migrating a Linux (Debian Squeeze) system from one HD to another HD

2012-02-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:22:37PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: Hello Tzafrir, Thanks for your war story. On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 18:34 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: update-initramfs -u The twist is that I need to boot some kernel to run it. What I did was: 1. Leave both disks connected to the

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 20:22, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: So either supporting a public documented ISO standard isn't harder than supporting many variants of proprietary and undocumented file file format, or... draw your own conclusion. Undocumented? Which file format is that? All