"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
Greetings!
I currently have a SuSE 6.3 installation on a 6.4GB hard drive that consists of three partitions (/boot,/swap, and /) that I would like to transfer to a new 20GB hard drive. I'm planning to use Drive Image to copy the partitions directly over to the new hard drive, and then use the unallocated space (~14GB) for a /pub partition.
I did something similar a few days back: moved from a 1GB disk to a 1.2 GB disk. ;-) (hda -> hdb) I "copied" root and swap partition to the new disk using partition magic (these were all my partitions). After that, i booted the "old" configuration. I edited /etc/lilo.conf and changed the setup to rewrite the boot sector on my "new" harddrive with the boot files from my "new" harddrive (location of lilo and root file system) With that, I had set up the second hard drive as a bootable device for the next step. The next step was to remove the old hda and rejumper the "new" one. After that I could reboot from the "new" drive. I did not change any partition size (and wonder wether that is possible with ext2 anyway) Juergen
Does Drive Image do a good job at copying the partitions (no resizing)?
Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a new hard drive?
Thanks!
Christopher Reimer
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