Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 17:44:54 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 18:39 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> It was /dev/sdd1. I did not want to copy the two partitions of /dev/sdd.

Okay, that's the problem.  You can't copy a single partition
(i.e. /dev/sdd1) to a hard drive (i.e. /dev/sda).  However, you can
partition /dev/sda and then dd from /dev/sdd1 to /dev/sda1.

Just be aware that you'll have to run grub-install again to install grub
onto /dev/sda.

Jonathan
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