Just expanding on Stephen's comments --
I would just put in both drives, and then boot with really anything
(regular system, live CD, etc...). All you need to do is make a
partition on the new drive and copy the data over to that partition.
When you copy your data over, make sure that it is in the same
direcory as it had been in. (i.e. if the old system was
/home/username, and make sure the data is in /username in the new
partition.) Then, remove the old drive, and start a clean install of
SuSE with only the new drive in.
In YaST, go in and do some custom patitioning. You will already have
a partition with your home data, so set its mount point to
/home
Then set-up all your other partitions (/ and swap, at least).
When you continue with your install, and create a new user, make sure
you use the same username as before. Yast will recognize that this
directory exists, and ask you if you want to use the existing files.
If you answer "yes", then it will setup /etc/passwd to point to
/home/username, which is where you mounted the old files. Everything
should be just as you want it.
If you mess up, you still have the old drive, with the old install and
can revert back by simply swapping the drive back in. Once everything
is up an running you can repartition the old drive and do whatever you
want with it.
Kirk
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:09:03 -0500, Stephen Starkey (SuSE)
Correction:
You're not nuts at all
:-)
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 07:11, Stephen Starkey (SuSE) wrote:
You're not nutes at all.
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