switching hard drives

[dep]

greets, folks . . .

sorry to interrupt the "nothing-is-going-on-here" discussion. (how to 
fix the list? simple: start including chili recipes, contests of 
imagined bravado in the consumption of hot peppers, and bring in 
somebody who does a "i just got linux. it sucks. i wish i had my 
windows back, and it's up to you to change my mind" newbie act. and get 
rid of the <OT> police.)

now. i've had the flu for a week now -- 80 percent better at the moment, 
but by no means recovered, and 20 percent of this flu is 100 percent of 
the worst flu you've ever had unless you had the flu in 1918, so go out 
of your way to avoid it. one of the effects is that i'm not entirely 
certain that i could make it clear through the alphabet. stuff i know 
is now just lost.

and the problem is, i absolutely *must* today move a linux installation 
from one hard drive to another. i haven't done this for about fisix 
years. used to be it involved doing a general copy over of everything, 
but then there was insane jumping through hoops to get it to boot -- 
getting the boot sector to behave. this machine has lilo and suse 7.3 
on it.

anybody remember the short version of what i need to do to get lilo in 
good order so the thing will boot with the new drive?

thanks.
-- 
dep

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