I used the mirrordir method and it worked fairly well, except it took a long time to install mirrordir due to the slow link. And I needed to change the uuid of the disk. I guess I could have used tune2fs to change it on the new disk, but I changed it in menu.lst and fstab instead. And I needed to use tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create Ext3 filesystem.

But I have another problem. It seems that when I su to root in a terminal, I can't start any graphical programs. I get a GConf error and orbit-root isn't created in /tmp.

Stig