Transferring to new hard drive

Paul den Hertog paul at neomedia.nl
Fri Oct 14 18:07:35 UTC 2005


Hi Steve,

Maybe ghost or another imaging tool will do the trick. I know that ghost
supports ext2 and ext3 and it has options to include the MBR in the
image file.

Regards,

Paul

Steve wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Right now I've got Ubuntu Hoary running SWEET on current my hard
>drive. I am thinking of getting a new hard drive and MOVING the OS to
>that new drive. How difficult would that be? In particular, what about
>the MBR/GRUB booting, and file/directory permissions?
>
>Thanks for any help! I don't expect it to be too difficult, but want
>to make sure I don't miss something.
>
>-Steve.
>--
>Ubuntu :: Linux for Human Beings :: ubuntulinux.org
>
>  
>





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