[ale] Hard Drive Upgrade

[David Hamm]

I did this a while back and this is what I had to do.  
	1.  Us a spare computer to install same version of linux.
		this gets lilo working properly.
	2.  Down the target computer, hang the new drive on it and
		boot it to single user mode at the lilo promtp type 
		"linux single".
	3.  Mount the new drive under /mnt/tmp or whatever.
	4.  Read the man page an find out how to make "cp" not follow
		symbolic links but just make them.
	5. "cp -Rpf / /mnt/tmp" Modify this command for the symbolic link stuff.
		You may also try not to copy /boot in order to avoid any lilo
		problems, I got lucky.
 	7.  Play the musical drive game and reboot.

I'm not proud of what I did but the computer is up and running and was only off
line about an hour or two.

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, you wrote:
>A couple of months ago I saw a discussion on doing a hard drive upgrade to
>an existing installation.  I didn't follow the discussion as closely as I
>should have....
>
>I now need to upgrade my Linux based SQL server in regards to HD size.  As
>the HD that the kernel and base system is loaded on approaches four years
>old, it would probably be a good idea to replace it as well.
>
>Any ideas or suggestions on copying from the old drive to the new drive
>other that " cd / ; cp -r * ...."  ?
>
>I want to make sure that all of my links are properly preserved.
>
>Bob
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