>>> On 9 Aug 2002, James Pifer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spoke: > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 08:11, James Pifer wrote: > I have a RH 7.0 machine with a failing hard drive. I was thinking of > getting a new drive and also upgrading to the current RH release. > > Can suggest how to go about this upgrade? > How do I get the data from the old drive to the new one?
> **** Will this work???? **** > Can I stick the new drive in as a Slave > Mount the new drive as something, like /disk2 > Copy everything from / to /disk2 > Install the new disk as the Master > Install new RH over the top > Will RH see the new drive as an upgrade? Don't forget you must create partitions and a filesystem before you can mount the new (slave) drive on /disk2. Depending on how much stuff you want to carry over from the old hard disk, you may be better off just doing a fresh install onto the new hard disk, then mounting your old drive as /mnt/disk2 and copying your data over. This method should be particularly nice if you generally keep your stuff in logical locations, /home, /usr/local, /usr/src, etc... Cheers. -- William Lanning ** RHCE =*=*=*= 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
