Mike Pepe wrote:
Hi listers,
I'm converting my FC3 box from software to hardware RAID and changing
out some dead disks.
I don't want to reinstall. Here's what I was thinking of doing- if
anyone has any comments or suggetions ("yes that works","I tried that
and it didn't work", etc) I'd love to hear them.
1: Boot off rescue CD
2: change into the /mnt/sysimage directory to get to my root filesystem
3: tar the contents onto a physical tape and/or external USB disk
4: shut down, install hardware RAID card, power up, format RAID arrays
5: boot off rescue CD again, partition the RAID disks and create new
filesystems, mount new structure under /mnt/sysimage
6: untar backup into new directory structure
7: boot off GRUB floppy, reinstall GRUB
8: hope machine boots after all this
Comments anyone?
Thanks all, your suggestions were helpful and I was able to restore the
system without any major incidents!
-Mike
