[ubuntu-nz] Cloning an ubuntu install.

[Steve Holdoway]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:09:28 +1300
Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at wired.net.nz> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:12 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:39:30 +1300
> > Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at wired.net.nz> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > 10. Repair the MBR; sudo grub-install --root-directory=/new /dev/sda
> > this one's redundant... 
> Not really, I removed your step of messing around with the grub
> commandline.. grub-install does it in one step.

grub-install also does more than update the mbr - it also will overwrite files that are already copied into the /boot dir of the new disk, so is a bit of overkill. 

Personally, I'd stick with 'messing' with grub.

(... and if the hdd is temporarily installed in the old server, I doubt it would be sda.)
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