Migrating gentoo install to new hard drive.

Joe_Bogarde · 09-08-2003, 09:47 PM

I have looked around for a simple way to transfer my gentoo installation to a larger partition on a new hard drive, but have not found any simple method short of reinstalling, which as painful and time consuming as it was I don't want to do again. Any suggestions?

chrismiceli · 09-08-2003, 10:29 PM

cp / /dev/hd(WHATEVER)
Why wouldn't you want to do that

I guess first you would have to format it
mke2fs -j /dev/hd(WHATEVER)
extenstion2 for reiserfs
mkreiserfs /dev/hd(WHATEVER)

Joe_Bogarde · 09-09-2003, 07:31 AM

Being that I am a noob, shoutd I boot from live cd or knoppix first, or can I do it from the gentoo installation?

Joe_Bogarde · 09-09-2003, 08:01 AM

I did it, thanks for your help

acid_kewpie · 09-09-2003, 08:02 AM

just copying will certainly not work..... try this.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=80464

Installing a bootloader and such on a second drive, you can just install grub or whatever while on your original system, you shouldn't need to use any boot CD's at any point.

Joe_Bogarde · 09-09-2003, 05:15 PM

Here is my attempt at following said instructions.

bash-2.05b# find -xdev /home | cpio -pvd /mnt
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [path...] [expression]
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