Re: upgrade a laptop hard drive

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:23:40 -0700, ray staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
partimage, rsync, cp -a, and so forth. This thing has a NIC, right?
Yes, one nic and one pcmcia wireless card

Good. This makes things easy.

Depends on the laptop. Does your laptop have a make and model#?
Gateway M305CRV

Exactly one page on Tuxmobil, which has no data about the Ultrabay or
equivalent. That probably means "forget about connecting 2 2.5" disks
at once via 2.5" connectors."

Cat5/6, shirley? Boot laptop from partimage LiveCD, mount large disk
in desktop over NFS/SMB, use partimage to copy junk. Replace 2.5"
disk, boot from partimage LiveCD, fdisk new disk, mount network FS,
restore junk, reinstall GRUB/LILO.
I'm lazy. If there is some simple way to hook the new drive up so I
only have to do one transfer instead of two, I'd prefer that.

Because of various things like trying to save space and weight, there
are usually only 2 IDE channels on a laptop, and each channel generally
doesn't support more than 1 disk. ISTR there were a few exceptions,
like some big "desktop-replacement" Dulls and Thinkpads that could
handle 2 disks and one CD-RW.

But network+partimage is really the laziest option here, since you don't
have to buy stuff and you only do 1 disk swap. partimage can run
unattended for the vast majority of the time it takes, which means you
can spend that time doing fun stuff like sleeping or riding motorcycles
or drinking beer or all 3 at once.

I could easily back up to USB external drive or network to my tower.

That sounds like the best plan to me. HTH,

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