New Boxen

[Technomage]

thats a good start.

here's my method:

1 plug in old drive in 2nd drop on your bus.

boot from live cd (any distro)

mount your new drive under /mnt/hdx
mount your old drive under /mnt/hdy

dd if=/mnt/hdy/home/ of=/mnt/hdx/home/

you may also have to sync passwd, group and shadow files using cp (if you want 
to retain same ownerships/accounts/etc)

before you unmount, make sure your /mnt/hdx/home and /mnt/hdy/home durs are 
the same (you can tell immediately in top level if something went wrong)
 
On Monday 02 October 2006 15:13, augie wrote:
> Hey Pluggers,
> Got a question, you guys might be able to provide some answers for.
> I've been running Simply Mepis on an older case and (noisy) hardware (AMD
> Athlon 1.1) and have aquired an HP with a 2.1G cpu and bigger HD and no
> noise.
> My question is how do I move my /home from the old boxen to the new one?
> I've installed the OS on the new one. Do I just hook up the old hd to the
> new one as slave and dd the /home partition using a live cd? If anybody can
> provide the correct (in detail) processes, I'd be forever indebted.