[ale] Hard Drive Upgrade

[Bob Kruger]

At 09:57 AM 11/25/98 -0500, you wrote:

>There are lots more elegant ways to do this, but while I'm at it, I usually
>go ahead and upgrade the system from scratch (as in, boot off the new drive,
>install a current distribution there, then mount the old drives and just
>copy over the old stuff I still want), and this method works well for that.
>
>Otherwise, I usually just dump to tape and restore, which I presume isn't an
>option for you.

Actually, it is an issue of time (the amount that I can spend with it).  I
would prefer just to initially install the new drive as a slave, partition
and format, mount, and then do some type of copy that will insure all of
the links are kept.

Any ideas?

Regards - Bob