For moving a system, I always use a Live CD to copy the data from the old to new drive. I get the new drive partitioned and formatted as needed, then copy the files from the old drive to the new. Or archive to tar to an external HD. Something like tar -cvfp file.tar / /usr /home /etc Then extract tar -xvfp file.tar You can restore grub from the live CD. If your live CD is the same as the installed OS you could at this point chroot to the mounted drive and use grub from the system... chroot /mnt/new-disk grub-install Reading up on tar and grub and making sure you have a good reliable backup highly recommended. It's out of date, but http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/ still has some helpful info. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080919/5e63ac2f/attachment.htm