Re: [SLE] Emergency - need to move system to a new box

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:41:11 -0400

On April 15, 2004 03:27 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> I have an ailing box. I need to move the Linux system disk to another
> box. The new box has one drive with W2K installed. The current (bad)
> box has SuSE 9.0 Pro installed on the 2nd hard drive (hdb).
>
> How do I install the disk as a second hard drive on the new box and have
> both systems recognized?

Steps as follows:

1. check the setting on the exiting w2k drive, probably set to master
2. remove the linux drive and set the jumpers to secondary and install
3. use a rescue disc to boot into the secondary drive to test it see if it
comes up which it should.
4. now adjust the system as necessary ie: yast and sax2 to set the system
variables (X can be a pain so use sax2 to accept the new video card)
4. last step is to setup the boot loader so that grub/lilo are used as the
boot loader and not w2k.
5. The way I do it is to use the SuSE install disc, and setup a new
installation making sure to leave the partition on hdb alone, adding no
software what so ever and walking through the dialogue, This will eventually
ask you what boot loader to use, select grub and check the variables to
ensure that there is an entry for both windows and linux. Once you are happy,
let the install procedure finish (if you have done this correctly all that it
will do is intall the boot loader)

Steps 1-4 are simple. Step 5 is tricky and you need to know what you are
doing. You can hose your system. I use it as its fast.

Suggest you post to this list and request information on installing grub/lilo
onto the system manually as there are other ways to do it. That is really
the only step that is dangerous but you can back track on linux and windows
if needed.

Best of luck

/ch
 

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