new drive

[badgers]

I bought a new drive this weekend, I want to replace my existing 5400rpm 2meg cache drive with my new one.
I booted the livecd, used fdisk to make new partitions, mke2fs to make the boot file system and mkreiserfs to make the root file system.

I made two directories, under the root of the livecd
/old and /new(guess which was which:))
first I mounted the boot partitions and then,I did a
cp -pr /old /new
but this made a directory on my new hard drive
/new/old which had everything.

how should I have done this to get my new drive to be exactly like the old? I used mv to get the files where I wanted them so I have the data copied.
I used fdisk to make my new boot partion bootable.


But it does not boot. Do I need to "install" grub to the new drive. is there some magic I am missing? also, did my copy procedure screw it up?

any help is appreciated.PS I am not trying to make a back up copy, I want this to be the new drive and get rid of the old.
the new is an 80 gig and the old is a 30 gig so I think dd is out. also I don't think tar is the way to go.
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Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support

[adaptr]

No, that is not the way to copy an entire partition
You might try this:

[NeddySeagoon]

badgers,

Boot the live CD and partition it like you were going to do a new install. With all that space, I would suggest that you create seperate real partitions for /home, /usr and /var too. That means you will need to create an extended partition. My /usr is 15Gb and my /var is 31Gb. Left to its own devices, portage will fill these partitions and the crash when they fill is easier to manage than when / fills up. (My drive is 160Gb so you will want to scale those numbers back.

Mount the new and old drives a partition at a time and copy files over using

[badgers]

Thanks for the info.

My biggest question is, if I am running off the livecd how should I "run" / "install" grub on the new disk.

I will recopy per the first note(-a )
and then the grub thing is where I get iffy.

I understand your point neddy, but....
I want to take this one step at a time.

My biggest roadblock seems to be grub, followed by coping and keeping the permissions the same.
thank you for your time and have a good day
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Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support

[NeddySeagoon]

badgers,

cp -a will preserve the permissions and timestamps.
Do not copy /dev or /proc /dev is created 'on the fly' by devfsd and /proc is actually some of the kernel data structures.

After you have done the data migration, (before installing grub) shut down the PC and reconfigure the hardware to your taste.

Now boot with the liveCD, mount everything on /mnt/gentoo, and perform the chroot steps. You are now running a fully installed migrated system on the kernel from the liveCD with everything else yours, except grub is missing. this is the install setup without the partition and make filesystems.

Follow the install guide to install grub. This may well rewrite you existing /boot/grub/grub.conf, ,which is not what you really want, so make a copy of it first, or make the old HDD available to provide a copy.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[badgers]

thanks all.
I am now on the new drive!

I didn't need to chroot.
I just ran grub from the livecd and did the three commands listed in the install guide.

The program is already there, just needed the MBR setup.

thanks all
_________________
Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support