[Fwd: Re: [wplug] Moving to new computer]

[Eric Cooper]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:56:31PM -0400, Kevin Squire wrote:
> For your question #1 -- Maybe someone more intellegent can correct me,
> but could you not just put Old HD in the computer as Primary Slave, New
> HD in as Primary Master.  Then Boot with Knoppix (or what ever you
> prefer) and do some formatting to the New HD, and then 'cp -a
> /PATH/TO/OLD/HD_PARTION /PATH/TO/NEW/HD_PARTION' a few times.  You will
> have to do something special with GRUB/LILO (not sure of the exact
> stuff, but I know it will include the "change root" command)  

This is what I usually do, using an external USB/Firewire enclosure
for the old disk.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u