john hedge wrote:
Hi,
I'm just about to embark on something I've never done before and is
probably fraut with dangers.
I'm going to move my Debian server system (1.4 gig) from a 60gig ATA
drive to a 10 gig scsi drive. (From there I'm going to create a RAID
array but that's for another day)
Any pointers, assistance, advice is appreciated.
Not what I would call an expert, not having had to do this that many
times, but I would simply copy the contents across with both drives on
the same system (fstab), leaving the ATA as the boot drive and add an
entry to your boot manager (grub/lilo) for the SCSI drive. This way you
can choose to boot to the old ATA or the new SCSI until you are happy
that the SCSI boot is OK, then you can remove the ATA boot entry and
make the SCSI the default.
Needless to say - BACKUP first and isolate the backup from the system so
you don't get tempted to overwrite something you shouldn't.
So, my suggestion (off the top of my head with verey little thought):
- unplug any network connections
- do a backup and remove the cds, dvd's or backup drive from the system
- connect the scsi and get it working on the existing system
- partition the SCSI drive as needed
- configure your SCSI drive on your ATA grub/lilo menu
- copy the contents
- try booting to the scsi
- if all works ok then you may need to install grub/lilo to the MBR of
the SCSI drive
- configure BIOS to boot to SCSI
- try booting again to SCSI
- if all works you can remove the ATA boot entry and change the default
on the SCSI grub/lilo
Don't shoot me down in flames if it doesn't work or the process is
faulty, I've given very very little thought to this process. You've been
warned. :)
Fil
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