[svlug] How to move the Linux OS ionstalled on two small HDDs to single large HDD

Sargun Dhillon xbmodder at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 13:53:13 PST 2007


Yes, "rinse and repeat" is usually used on shampoo bottles.
Rinsing in this sense can mean:
1. Killing extraneous processes
2. Preventing any further extraneous processes from running
3. Running "sync"

On 2/15/07, Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:48:21 -0800, Prasad Paranjape wrote:
>
> > Hi Sargun,
> >
> > Kindly explain what you mean by Step 3. Is it that I
> > install the Slackware 8 on the new hard drive and then
> > copy the partitions from my old HDDs to new HDD.
>
> Copying filesystems directly does not correctly point the bootloader to
> the kernel, so you will need to do this step anyway, e.g. "grub-install"
> or the like.
>
> > Also in step 7 you have mentioned Rinse .Pl. explain
> > what you mean by Rinse.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Prasad
>
> "Rinse and repeat" is the last step listed in the instructions on many
> bottles of shampoo.
>
>
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