Installing OS on new drive

I am intending on installing a new hard disk to replace the smaller 80GB drive that came with the server. I am not sure what files to copy over, and I am worried that I will loose my LDAP settings. I have already saved all of the user home directories to another, larger, drive, but I am not sure if there are any 'hidden' files that need to be copied.
I will also be installing OSX leopard on the new drive once copied to replace Tiger which is on there now. Any help/advice is appreciated.

The less disruptive upgrade is:
0. make a bootable backup to an external disk (just in case anything goes wrong)
1. buy a new larger drive
2. buy an external drive case (or use the old disk with carrier when in step 1 you order an Apple drive module)
3. boot from 10.4 install CD
4. start disk utility
5. create a partition on the new drive (better to give it exactly the same name as the old one, when the old disk was named Server_HD, name the new one Server_HD)
6. restore the new drive from the old drive
7. set the new drive bootable (better remove the old drive or blank it)
8. reboot the machine from the new drive
9. when everything runs fine, and only then, I would start the upgrade procedure to Leopard
This would give you the least unwanted changes.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1589
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I've had **** with my iMac, the hard-drive failed so i replaced it with a new 1TB Samsung drive. Then when i tried to install SL from the install disk, all went to plan until it asked me which drive i wanted to install it on, where it came up with a box where my options should have been, but instead it didn't give me any options to install it on any drive i.e. it asked which drive i wanted to install it on but no drives came up to select.
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Hi db2
That off the shelf MS-DOS / FAT-32 drive needs to re-partitioned GUID Partition Table / Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before you can install OS X and Startup your Intel iMac from it.
1. Boot from your original install or retail SL DVD and open Disk Utility.
2. Highlight the new HD in the list of drives and select the Partition tab.
3. Under Volume Scheme select 1 Partition and click on the Options... button.
4. Select GUID Partition Table in the drop down window and click OK.
5. Set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click the Apply button.
6. Once thats done, then you can do a clean SL Install, Restore from TM , your old HD or Bootable Clone.
Dennis

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I'm having a relatively serious problem with upgrading my hardware. I have a Mac Pro tower with an empty HD slot into which I installed a new drive which mounts properly.
My plan was to simply move everything from the old hard drive to the new one, using Disk Utility's "Restore" function.
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I checked the formatting of the drive, and it seems to be the same as both my current startup disk, and the external drive that the OS could be installed on.
How can I move my entire system to this new drive without causing instant kernel panics? Thanks in advance for any help!
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Interesting. Yes, I think that is what macjack had in mind. However, after doing what macjack said, your drive would be erased Mac OS X extended (journaled), and, after shutting down disk utility, you could just continue the install you would have started. At the end of the install, you could restore your files, data, settings, and apps from your other drive. The choice, of course is yours. If I were doing it, I would perfer the first alternative.

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