From: John Jolet <john@jolet.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:50:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8606C3F4-E671-40BB-A6B4-B6CAC5E5ADBE@jolet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5d1857a0509011436452ef491@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Howard wrote:
>
> My question :-
>
> I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
>
> I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems
> then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused
> to boot, sensed that I had been too obvious so after much googling I
> have looked into parted though with no sucess as yet.
boot from live cd. mount new partitions under /mnt/gentoo (just like
an install). chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
now you're on your new drive. grub-install /dev/new_hd_device.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 21:36 [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Stuart Howard
2005-09-01 21:50 ` John Jolet [this message]
2005-09-01 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-01 23:06 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:16 ` Ben Blount
2005-09-01 23:32 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:33 ` Holly Bostick
2005-09-02 10:09 ` Harald Arnesen
2005-09-01 23:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-02 0:05 ` Stuart Howard
2005-09-02 1:31 ` Bob Sanders
2005-09-07 1:08 ` waltdnes
2005-09-07 15:49 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-10 18:13 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post Stuart Howard
2005-09-12 14:53 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-09-12 16:26 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-09-02 6:23 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Frank Schafer
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