Owl River Company

Your IP is: 38.107.191.112

Here is a cookbook:
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Easier than that (I assume IDE drives and Lilo for simplicity
in this example):

1.  Build a unit and admin and configure to taste -- use DHCP 
to avoid having to mess with IP and hostname setup


2.  Power down and hang another drive at Secondary Master --
-- use fdisk and mkfs to build the /dev/hdc partition
structure on the new drive

I usually hang:

1	/boot
2	/
3	<swap>
4	<extended>
5	/usr
6	/tmp
7	/var
8	/var/log
9	/var/spool
10	/home

... for reasons not relevant here.


3.  I mkfs and mkswap as appropiate ...

... again details are outside our present scope


4.  Mount thus (this looks harder than it is -- it is
completely repetitive):

mount /dev/hdc2	/mnt/build
cd /mnt/build
mkdir proc
mkdir boot
mkdir usr
mkdir tmp
mkdir var
mkdir home
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/build/boot
mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt/build/usr
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/build/tmp
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/build/var
cd var
mkdir log
mkdir spool
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/build/var/log
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/build/var/spool
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/build/home


5.  Move back to the mountpoint and suck the content across --
a careful person does this in single user mode, but it can be
done on hot systems, and with the -e ssh option to rsync, one
can salvage a dying hard drive to a good one in a new remote
chassis -- (I know -- I had to do it on a box 200 miles away
as the hard drive was dying one day -- the customers did not 
even notice)

cd /mnt/build
rsync -av --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt/build /. ./.

[This basically photocopies the drive]

hit up-arrow and do the rsync again


6.  If the partitioning numbers differ on the new drive from 
your master, edit /mnt/build/etc/fstab appropiately


7.  If using lilo, and the / partition has moved, edit 
/mnt/build/etc/lilo.conf appropiately -- Grub instructions are 
slightly different


8.  Make a boot floppy -- just in case


9.  shutdown -h now      and move the copied drive to its new 
chassis


10.  Boot from the floppy into single user mode


11.  Run   lilo -v    and ldconfig -v   (or GRUB commands ...)


12.  Troubleshoot as appropiate -- but there should be no 
issues


13.   Hot test a reboot without the floppy -- kudzu can handle 
minor hardware variances


14.  All done;  Next ...

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-- Russ

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Copyright (C) 2001 R P Herrold
      herrold@owlriver.com  NIC: RPH5 (US)
   My words are not deathless prose, 
      but they are mine.

       Owl River Company  
   "The World is Open to Linux (tm)"
   ... Open Source LINUX solutions ...
      info@owlriver.com 
         Columbus, OH


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