In news:ceo4b9$7cc$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au, D. Phan bitched and
moaned:
> hello there
>
> My old hard drive in which is running slackware 10.0 is now so noisy
> with high frequency. I now wanna move whole contents in the old to a
> new harddisk. Please tell me your experience about that
> much appreciated,
> regards
> d.phan
> my system: slackware 10 (ker-2.4.26/cpu 450mhz - 128MB ram) with no X
> and X apps, and managed by puTTY (ssh) from XP clients

1) cpio the entire drive to the new one. Make sure the layout is the same,
if /dev/Xa1 is the swap on the old drive, then it is the same on the new.
2) Boot up either by bootdisk or through the CD with the new drive on the
same channel as the old
3) Mount the slice, and use chroot to set it to the root slice
4) Run lilo

You may need to edit your fstab if you add or remove mount points and
slices.

That should be enough though.