Re: Harddrive Question

[Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me see if I understand this.

1. You have a new, or anyhow a new-er computer. You put a new hard drive 
in this computer.

2. You installed Red Hat 9 on the new hard drive.

3. You copied the hard drive from your old machine onto a 200 Gb backup 
drive.

4. You removed the hard drive from your old machine and installed it in 
your new machine.

5. Your goal is now to copy the contents of the old hard drive to the 
new hard drive which has Red Hat 9 on it. But, you don't know how.

Am I correct?

If i am right, the solution is fairly straightforward but it takes 
careful study and even some practice to carry it out correctly. I am 
assuming you did not overwrite your old drive by accident and you are 
protecting it from being overwritten. Here is what you do:

1. Visit http://www.tldp.org/ (The Linux Documentation Project)
2. Locate the Hard Drive Upgrade How-To.
3. Print the How-To and study it. It tells you how to copy an entire 
Linux system from one hard drive to another.
4. Practice following the instructions. Remember that you want an ext3 
file system, which is the default on Red Hat 9, but if you are 
adventurous and are ready to overcome some technical issues with the 
initrd image, you can have JFS, ReiserFS, or whatever other file system 
strikes your fancy. Just be prepared to provide all support for your choice.

5. And now for my disclaimer: if something goes wrong with this 
procedure, don't blame me. You assume all risk for your actions. So use 
your own best judgment.

Good luck!

Bob




Jake McHenry wrote:
> I just installed a new harddrive a new machine and installed RH9. I
> backed up everything from my other machine onto a 200gb harddrive, and
> put it into the new machine to copy the files from.
>
> My problem is that I forgot where my partitions are located at for
> /etc/fstab.
>
> Is there any magic way to re-generate this file to auto find my
> partitions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jake

--
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/



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