Dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got a CentOS 4.4 box that it's drive is dying. This machine > has a lot of customizations done to it, custom configs and the like > and i'd rather not have to do a full reinstall or manually copy over > settings files. What i'm wondering is is there a way i can set up the > new disk, make it bootable, then transfer the entire system over to > it? I would then pull out the failing drive set the new one to be > master, and go on with things? > Recently i've had to do this on a FreeBSD system for pretty much > the same reason, all data and settings went over fine and i'd like to > have the same success here. > Thanks. > Dave. There's a howto here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html I haven't used it for several years but I think it will still work. -- UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN -- "If they haven't followed the law to get here, they are by definition 'illegal'. It's like saying a drug dealer is an 'undocumented pharmacist.'" -John Varga, Westfield, New Jersey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070416/e89cb2c2/attachment-0005.html>