Ajay Sharma spake the following on 10/13/2006 11:42 AM: > > Hi, > > I'm about to copy the contents of one server onto another. The "plan" > that I've come up with is: > > 1) boot the new server with a live disc, partition accordingly > > 2) a big tar-over-ssh for the /boot, and root partitions (that's all > there is) > > 3) adjust the fstab so that it'll find the new scsi partitions vs. the > old ATA ones. > > 3) then chroot into the new system and run grub to initialize the > bootloader. > > I'm switching a server from a single HD to a SCSI mirror on our new > machine. So it has a different partition setup and I don't want to mess > with resizing. > > Does that sound about right to get the machine booted? I'm sure there > will be some other minor things but I can sort that out once I get the > data over and the machine booted. > > --Ajay > If it boots from a different type of drive, you will have to re-create the initrd's. Might be a good idea anyway. You can usually insmod any drivers you need and the mkinitrd script "usually" puts them in the initrd. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!