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Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To
Yves Bellefeuille
yan@storm.ca
Konrad Hinsen
hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr
v2.11, 13 April 2000
How to copy a Linux system from one disk to another.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Install both disks on your system
- 3. Unmount non-Linux partitions and network drives
- 4. Partition the new disk
- 5. Format the new disk
- 6. Mount the new disk
- 7. Copy the files from the old disk to the new disk
- 8. Modify /new-disk/etc/fstab as appropriate
- 9. Prepare LILO to boot the new disk
- 10. Make a boot diskette (optional)
- 11. Remove the old disk
- 12. Reboot the system, modify LILO configuration file
- 13. Acknowledgements
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