[CLUE-Talk] Trying Out Debian

[Grant Johnson]

I am doing this on SuSE, but it is not distribution dependent.  The only 
thing is that you may need to move around the home directory in single user 
mode.

What I did was:
1)  Install.
2)  Add my new drive, and tell BIOS not to look there.
3) fdisk
4) mkfs
5) mounted the new drive at /tmphome
6) cp'ed everything.  There are some options on cp to make sure it does all 
of the hidden files, recurses directories, sticks to one physical device, 
copies sym links as symlinks, and not real files, etc.
7) rebooted into single user mode (init S or init 1)
8) remounted the file systems read/write
9) mv'ed /home to /oldhome
10) edited fstab to tell it to mount the new drive as /home
11) did a full reboot to make sure everything showed up as wanted.
12) Once I was sure all was OK (about a week later) I typed rm -Rf /oldhome


At 01:40 PM 03/15/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>You all talked me into it.  I am switching to Debian.
>
>Grant Johnson wrote:
> >
> > At 11:35 AM 03/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >My Red Hat installation has finally outgrown the partition it lives
> > >on, so as I type this the good folks at UPS are delivering to me a
> > >new 8.4 gig drive (the biggest thing my creaky old motherboard can
> > >handle) which will be devoted entirely to Linux.
> > Neato Linux trick:
> >
> > My "creaky old motherboard" will not even get to the memory checking if it
> > knows about anything bigger than an 8.4 attached to it.  So, I told it to
> > stop sutodetecting on my secondary master, and then hooked up a 45G
> > drive.  It boots off the same old 6.8G drive hapily, then Linux found the
> > 45G , fdisk, mkfs, happy time with lotsa more room.  The BIOS only has to
> > be nice to the boot drive.
> >
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