I have SuSE V8.2 running OK on a couple of PC's. What I would like to do is setup a new hard drive with SuSE so that the hard drive could be taken and installed in another PC (locally or remotely) and that PC being able to boot up without any video or other issues. The concept being that the PC receiving the HD may have a totally different video card/monitor/hardware cofiguration to that on the first PC where the software was installed on the PC. My thought was that if I use a local PC and install SuSE, set the video/graphics to VGA then that drive should fire up in most PC's, and video/sound/network settings could then be adjusted for that particular PC. Would this work OK? Or is there a better way to do this. If the setup is done on Intel based PC's and the drive is put in an AMD processor PC are there new issues? Any comments appreciated. John -- John Blue, PO Box 542 Mawson ACT 2607 Australia email: list@bpond.dnsalias.com __________ This email has been pre-scanned using the latest Anti Virus software for your peace of mind.
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 21:51, John wrote:
My thought was that if I use a local PC and install SuSE, set the video/graphics to VGA then that drive should fire up in most PC's, and video/sound/network settings could then be adjusted for that particular PC.
~ maybe, just format the partition you wish to use on the HardDisk that will be going into the other 'puter . . . plug that HD into your working puter . . . mount the HD that's for the 2nd puter, on, say, /mnt then execute :- tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) { you may wish to kill "cron" while you are making your 'clone' } ~ finally, shut down your puter, unplug the HD and transfer it to our 2nd machine . . . run sax2 ~ the whole operation should take about 10 minutes. ~ should work OK [ remember to restart cron : execute /usr/sbin/cron ] best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 21:51, John wrote:
My thought was that if I use a local PC and install SuSE, set the video/graphics to VGA then that drive should fire up in most PC's, and video/sound/network settings could then be adjusted for that particular PC.
~ maybe, just format the partition you wish to use on the HardDisk that will be going into the other 'puter
. . . plug that HD into your working puter . . . mount the HD that's for the 2nd puter, on, say, /mnt
then execute :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
{ you may wish to kill "cron" while you are making your 'clone' }
~ finally, shut down your puter, unplug the HD and transfer it to our 2nd machine . . . run sax2 ~ the whole operation should take about 10 minutes.
~ should work OK
[ remember to restart cron : execute /usr/sbin/cron ]
Thanks Pinto. I'll give this a try, you have now given me a better idea on how to set this up, as I believe I will have a few systems to do (family & friends). Using your idea i could setup an old machine with all that was needed as the host to do the copying. Thanks, John
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