I don't know with 6.1, but with newer SuSE versions it is easy. Install new drive as IDE 2 Master (/dev/hdc) Boot single user mode dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=8k Assuming your old disk is smaller that 40GB, use 'fdisk /dev/hdc' to create a new partition or 2 at the end of the disk. Format, mount and populate the partitions if you are going to move anything to them. poweroff Physically remove the old drive and make the new drive IDE 1 Master Boot as normal. Update your /etc/fstab to use the new partitions. Reboot to test fstab changes Greg -- Greg Freemyer
Hello guys
I have an old system running SuSE 6.1 and i want to add a new hard disk (40GB) and transfer everything from the old disk to the new one with the same distribution How can i do this? Probably i will run fdisk /dev/my2nddisk but after that what? I mean how i can transfer all the settings from the old disk to the new one without loosing any data?
Thanks a lot
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