On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:17 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Now how to put this f7 on the new HD :-( I have had no help at > all Patience! You've been discussing the other half of your thread, don't expect instant answers on everything. You can, of course, Google this, and find answers already provided. The topic is not new. > so I will do it as I have in the past. I use cp=copy and the > switches -av >> file and that allows me to just let the copy happen > and when over read file and see what happened 8-) If you do a "cp" copy, be sure to copy contexts, permissions, and ownership. Also, don't copy things that aren't really files (stuff like /proc is generated at boot time). A simple answer to that is to not do this from a drive that's running the system, and simply copy the files from the drive separately (e.g. boot from a CD/DVD). After doing so, check things like the /tmp space has proper permissions, or you won't be able to log in. [tim@gonzales ~]$ ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4096 Aug 14 11:02 /tmp/ (That "t" permission flag is important.) You can "dd" copy a drive, though you have to think about how you want to handle things if the drives are different sizes. I'm not going to advise on this, I'll let someone else who's used that method go over that. You can use tools designed for backing up or moving drives. Many hard drive manufacturers provide free ones, that you make a boot disc with their program on, and use it to transfer things over. They'll guide you through picking the right drives and partitions. But again, doing this between drives with different sizes may be a problem. You can do a fresh install on the new drive, boot it up, then copy personal files from the old drive /home/ to the new one. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
