HG a écrit :
Hello!
I have 10.0 installed on a large (but old) disk. Now I have another same sized disk and a (old) smaller disk as well. What I'd like to do is to move the installation from current drive to the smaller drive and then set up the 2 large drives with mirroring (for data).
The guestion is, how can I move everything from one disk to another when they are of different sizes? (Equivalent of what Norton Ghost does I guess.) I think dd only works with same sized disks, right?
I'm thinking that I should create partitions on the new smaller drive. Boot with SuSE-live (or knoppix) and then as root, just "cp *" from old partitions to the new ones. And then physically move the disks around inside the computer. But I do not think that the new disk would boot. So I still need to... what, boot the SUSE installation and let that try to fix the installation, or? There must be a easier way...
-- HG.
Hello, 1° - With linux copy the content of your disk to the new one, it is not necessary to have the same size for partitions. 2° - Modify menu.lst (if you use grub) and fstab in order to point to your new disk partitions. 3° - Boot from your DVD or CD and go to "boot the installed system" 4° - when booted run "grub-install /dev/sdx or hdx" according to where you want to install the MBR and it will run. I did it a lot of times. Michel.