Re: Moving to a new platform
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Date: 01/05/05
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:22:08 -0600
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:46:48 -0600, Mark Anderson wrote:
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> I have a better PC with more memory that I want to make the server. Is
> it possible for me to just move that 45G linux drive to the new PC, make
> it a master, and have it boot and rediscover all the new hardware? I
> have all the RedHat 9 install disks but I really don't want to a re-
> install from those CDs since some of the packages already installed have
> been upgraded since I originally installed RedHat 9. It has been so long
> since I installed RH9 that I forgot what the install sequence screens are
> and am a little afraid of screwing something up.
>
> If I can't do this then that would be good to know too. Any help would
> be appreciated, thanks.
You're using grub so I can't suggest anything for that as my distro
uses LILO with which I am familiar. Your partitions as of now will be
on /dev/hdb if the current drive is slave on the primary IDE
controller. Once you move it to master on the primary IDE controller
on your "better PC" the drive partitions will be seen as residing on
/dev/hda. Therefore you will need to change grub, /etc/fstab and any
other files that reference /dev/hdb to now reference /dev/hda. How
you accomplish this is up to you. I would use a root+boot disk of
some type and mount the necessary partition(s) to edit the files then
reboot the box to see if it works. Rinse, repeat until it works.
I use SCSI on all my SOHO PCs (except the laptop) so I will never
have to do this on my own boxen in my SOHO. With SCSI it is just a
matter of setting the SCSI IDs to get the same drive order. I'm a
SCSI chauvinist. SCSI is still better than IDE ... even SATA. :-P
Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
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