Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:21:56PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:56:21PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > You're telling me this won't work because I need grub's stage 1 in the > > boot sector, right? > > I think that "won't work" is far too strong. You can do this, but >

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:56:21PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > You're telling me this won't work because I need grub's stage 1 in the > boot sector, right? I think that "won't work" is far too strong. You can do this, but before you swap the drives around, after you have copied the data, put grub o

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:22:49PM EDT, Alex Samad wrote: [..] > also check your fstab to see if you are using labels or device names The device names would be the same since I would copy /etc/fstab over to what would become the new "/" partition. Hence once my new hard drive becomes hda .. hda

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:22:49PM EDT, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > cga2000 wrote: > > > I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and > > > came up with the following plan: > > > > > > 1. Buy a large H

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and > > came up with the following plan: > > > > 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a > >useless 100

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
cga2000 wrote: > I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and > came up with the following plan: > > 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a >useless 100M Omega zip drive currently lives. > 2. Lavishly partition the new drive & create the u

Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread cga2000
I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and came up with the following plan: 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a useless 100M Omega zip drive currently lives. 2. Lavishly partition the new drive & create the usual file systems. 3. Copy