Emergency - need to move system to a new box
I have an ailing box. I need to move the Linux system disk to another box. The new box has one drive with W2K installed. The current (bad) box has SuSE 9.0 Pro installed on the 2nd hard drive (hdb). How do I install the disk as a second hard drive on the new box and have both systems recognized? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Doesn't sound dificult... Add second disk to new (windows Box)... Windows should run unmodified.... To get Linux to work do the following: 1) boot from SuSE CD(dvd), 2) select Installation, 3) Abort Installation. (You should now have the Text Menu instead of the fancy GUI!) 4) Select Installation 5) Select boot installed system 6) Select the suse linux root partion (/dev/hdb3 /dev/hdc3?) (Linux should startup, on the new system!) Now you need to change the configuration to match with the new machine, this usually is not too much of a problem... if you have expirience configuring SuSE! At sometime you need to go to Yast2->System->Boot Configuration (let Yast2 assign a new boot configuration and install it) so you can select window/linux during boot! Hope this helps... Jerry On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 21:27, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I have an ailing box. I need to move the Linux system disk to another box. The new box has one drive with W2K installed. The current (bad) box has SuSE 9.0 Pro installed on the 2nd hard drive (hdb).
How do I install the disk as a second hard drive on the new box and have both systems recognized?
-- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
On April 15, 2004 03:27 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I have an ailing box. I need to move the Linux system disk to another box. The new box has one drive with W2K installed. The current (bad) box has SuSE 9.0 Pro installed on the 2nd hard drive (hdb).
How do I install the disk as a second hard drive on the new box and have both systems recognized?
Steps as follows: 1. check the setting on the exiting w2k drive, probably set to master 2. remove the linux drive and set the jumpers to secondary and install 3. use a rescue disc to boot into the secondary drive to test it see if it comes up which it should. 4. now adjust the system as necessary ie: yast and sax2 to set the system variables (X can be a pain so use sax2 to accept the new video card) 4. last step is to setup the boot loader so that grub/lilo are used as the boot loader and not w2k. 5. The way I do it is to use the SuSE install disc, and setup a new installation making sure to leave the partition on hdb alone, adding no software what so ever and walking through the dialogue, This will eventually ask you what boot loader to use, select grub and check the variables to ensure that there is an entry for both windows and linux. Once you are happy, let the install procedure finish (if you have done this correctly all that it will do is intall the boot loader) Steps 1-4 are simple. Step 5 is tricky and you need to know what you are doing. You can hose your system. I use it as its fast. Suggest you post to this list and request information on installing grub/lilo onto the system manually as there are other ways to do it. That is really the only step that is dangerous but you can back track on linux and windows if needed. Best of luck /ch
chris h wrote:
On April 15, 2004 03:27 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I have an ailing box. I need to move the Linux system disk to another box. The new box has one drive with W2K installed. The current (bad) box has SuSE 9.0 Pro installed on the 2nd hard drive (hdb).
How do I install the disk as a second hard drive on the new box and have both systems recognized?
Steps as follows:
1. check the setting on the exiting w2k drive, probably set to master 2. remove the linux drive and set the jumpers to secondary and install 3. use a rescue disc to boot into the secondary drive to test it see if it comes up which it should. 4. now adjust the system as necessary ie: yast and sax2 to set the system variables (X can be a pain so use sax2 to accept the new video card) 4. last step is to setup the boot loader so that grub/lilo are used as the boot loader and not w2k. 5. The way I do it is to use the SuSE install disc, and setup a new installation making sure to leave the partition on hdb alone, adding no software what so ever and walking through the dialogue, This will eventually ask you what boot loader to use, select grub and check the variables to ensure that there is an entry for both windows and linux. Once you are happy, let the install procedure finish (if you have done this correctly all that it will do is intall the boot loader)
Steps 1-4 are simple. Step 5 is tricky and you need to know what you are doing. You can hose your system. I use it as its fast.
Suggest you post to this list and request information on installing grub/lilo onto the system manually as there are other ways to do it. That is really the only step that is dangerous but you can back track on linux and windows if needed.
Best of luck
/ch
It went well, thanks so much! The only problem I had was that W2K was on hda2, whic grub didn't setup properly, but I fixed the problem easily. Then I spent hours trying to get W2K to recognize my modem (which SuSE had no problem with) and never did get it setup in W2K. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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