On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 07:34, Timothy Payne wrote: > So the question is if I copy the old to the new will the partitions > expand to fill the space, if not how. > I don't think they'll do so automatically, but parted is your friend. You might need resize2fs as well. > Will FC2 upgrade RH 7.3 ? > *It* might but *I* sure wouldn't. Too many new changes, too far to jump from one to the other. Better to do a clean install. > Should I install FC2 on the larger drive then copy data over? But I'm > assuming I'll lose all the settings on the old drive. > You may lose settings for your desktop background and whatever. Here again, so many things have changed that I would just reconfigure my new FC2 system and explore it in the process. You do not have to "lose" anything really since all configuration files can probably be brought over. *I* would just prefer to redo them when moving to an operating system that's 4 whole releases newer. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Simpaticus.com
