SATA (fedora 2)

[KyPeN]

We're running a server that is up and running on IDE drives , because of issues with installing on SATA drives and multiple processors. We're using fedora core 2. What's the easiest way to copy over the installation to the sata drives?

[gehidore]

FROM A LIVE CD!

make dirs for the sata partitions AND! the ide partitions
then mount them
eg

mkdir /mnt/ide
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ide/
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/ide/boot

mkdir /mnt/sata
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sata/
mkdir /mnt/sata/boot
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sata/boot

then run this:

cd /mnt/ide/ ; tar cSpf - . | ( cd /mnt/sata/ ; tar xSpf - )

Or you can use dd but again from a live cd

make partitions of equal or greater sizes for each partition on the ide drives.

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/sda1
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/sda2