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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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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 21:56 UTC|newest]

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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