On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 04:36:54PM +0000, Darque wrote:
> I am fairly new to Linux, and originally loaded RH5 unto a system shared with
> Win95. I have now built another box to move Windows into, so that my wife and
> children will quit asking me to boot into Windows so that they can run their
> software. :) Here's my question...
>
> Windows is currently on C drive, with my cd-rom slaved off of it, and Linux
> takes up 2 drives off of my secondary IDE port. I want to just remove the
> drive with windows, move my 2 drives Linux is on to the primary IDE controller,
> and put my cd-rom onto the second IDE controller. I'm thinking that I just
> need to edit my fstab file, and maybe my lilo.conf, and everything should be
> good to go when I bring it back up. Can anyone tell me if I need to do other
> things. I'm still a little paranoid with Linux, and don't want to break
> anything.
I think that you've basically got it. But here are a couple of things that
come to mind:
-you'll need to change the system CMOS setup to reflect the rearranged
drives.
-you'll need a way to reboot the first time after moving the drives around.
While it is probably possible to use Lilo to load the appropriate boot
block onto your /dev/hdc before moving it around, I found it easiest for
me (when I rearranged my system the other day) to have a bootable floppy.
Before dismantling the hardware, use dd (or cp or cat) to copy your
current boot kernel image to a diskette, e.g.:
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
then use rdev to tell it where the new root partition will be AFTER
the drives get rearranged:
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1
assuming your first drive's first partition will be the new root
partition.
If you've already fixed up the fstab and /etc/lilo files, then all
you should need to do once you've booted the floppy is to rerun lilo,
shut down and let it boot from the hard drive.
Fred
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