On Sunday 26 December 2004 20:21, mark wrote: > Looking for some advice. > > I have a RHEL WS box I want to move to new hardware. > > I would like to tar it all up, move it, extract it, rescue disk, grub > install, and run it. Is this do-able? Better method? > > What is the tar command to tar all for such a purpose? There is an > exclude proc part is I remember right...... > > I am moving from a dual p800 on 80 Gig ATA to a 36GIG SCSI RAID 1 > Single hyperthread CPU ( still SMP ) > > Thoughts? Recommendations? > > Thank you, > > Mark I have done it that way a long time ago - not the greatest fun but it works well enough... The things I can think of that you need to worry about to get a booting system are: 1) grub.conf (root entries, splash image) 2) scsi driver in initrd for your controller (mod /etc/modules.conf with the driver for your scsi crontoller and rerun mkinitrd before you move to the new hardware) 3) devices will be different (modify /etc/fstab) That should give you a bootable system - the rest of the drivers, x and so on you can do through kudzu and system-config-* Anyway, I'd just reload the box... Peter.
