Greetings- I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an MBR with LILO to boot DOS, NT, or (99% of the time) Debian.
That drive is quickly dying, and when it dies it brings down the IDE bus and therefore the system. So I need to get rid of it. I'd like to upgrade to woody at the same time. Here's my plan; any comments or advice are welcome. 1.) Back up /etc to somewhere safe 2.) Edit /etc/fstab: change all references to /dev/hdb* to /dev/hda* remove references to (unused) filesystems on what is now /dev/hda change references to /dev/hdc* to /dev/hdb* change references to /dev/hdd* to /dev/hdc* (cdrom and zip drive are SCSI so not relevant to this process) 3.) Edit /etc/lilo.conf to point linux to /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb 4.) Write /etc/lilo.conf to the MBR of the current /dev/hdb (about to become /dev/hda). THIS IS THE STEP I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO. 5.) Power down 6.) Remove current /dev/hda 7.) Rejumper current /dev/hdb as master 8.) Power back up ---At this point I *hope* to have the old system (potato) up and running without the dead disk.--- 9.) edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to testing instead of stable (should I use woody instead of testing?) 10.) apt-get update 11.) apt-get install apt apt-utils 12.) apt-get dist-upgrade What, if anything, am I missing, or should I be worried about? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
