On 8/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan J. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org">b.j.smith@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 21:07 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:<br>> Boot the new machine with a boot CD like knoppix, all it needs is the<br>> ext3 restore and ssh and something to create the LVM volume.<br><br>Not to cross you, but wanted to point out one thing ...
<br><br>In the case of any Fedora-based system (including RHEL, CentOS, etc...),<br>I highly recommend the sub-100MB "Recovery CD" (or the 6-12MB ISO/USB<br>key and access the installer via NFS, HTTP, etc...).<br>
<br>Red Hat puts a lot of patches into their kernels for more<br>"enterprise" (that's not saying "better") support -- everything from<br>updated hardware RAID firmware to HBAs, network pathing and LVM2, etc...
<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>I ended up using disc 1 of my fedora install set. I recreated the partitions on the new drive and used dump/restore with netcat (couldn't start the sshd in recovery environment). Worked pretty well. All else I needed to do was re-install grub.
<br><br>One bit I don't understand though is my /etc/grub.conf didn't get copied.<br><br>Nonetheless everything works as I hoped it would.<br><br>dump/restore is a new trick in my bag. :)<br><br>Thanks everyone!<br>
Mike<br>