Transferring install to HDD

[pratt]

I installed archlinux to a pogo pro with an attached USB thumb drive. Now that I realize how awesome this is, I want to attach a sata drive and remove the usb thumb drive from the equation. I am looking for suggested steps.

To reinstall archlinux onto the sata drive and remove the USB it is on, I was thinking I need to :
1. Power down the running pogo pro+usb
2. plug in the sata
3. boot the pogo pro+usb+sata
4. do a normal install to the sata per the instructions
5. at step 12 in those instructions, remove the usb during reboot
6. update with pacman
7. add packages

[WarheadsSE]

Actually, no.

If you plug in the SATA & boot, you'll end up with the system thinking SATA is /dev/sda1, and that it shold have the rootfs.

What you are best off to do is to transfer the rootfs you have from the USB to the SATA drive via another linux computer/livecd/etc. That way it's just as you left it, but on SATA.

In the event you are unable to do that (for whatever reason, it shouldn't be hard), I would suggest:
- boot up with usb attached
- power on the SATA hard drive (after booting completed)
- `echo "0 0 0" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan`
- partition & format the SATA drive
- mount the new partition(s)
- extract a fresh rootfs tarball
- chroot & update
- reboot, removing the USB immediately after the led begins to flash.