===================================================== This message and any attachments to it are subject to copyright and are sent for the personal attention of the addressee. It may include information which is legally privileged and exempt from disclosure. If you receive this communication in error, please advise us immediately. ===================================================== I Personally have done this several times... the main problems are... BIOS ...i.e. I stuck a 2.1GB disk from pentium class into a old 4/25 machine (the bios didn't support drives larger than about 500mb bios upgrade required) Causes probs with lilo... REMEDY take a boot disk... X-Windows.... The graphics card is bound to be different.... probably need to run XF86Setup,SaX..... make sure you install extra X-servers or find out before hand... I don't really know about the partitions.... I hope I have Helped. Surjit Bains -----Original Message----- From: Richard King [<A HREF="mailto:kingr@icon.co.za">mailto:kingr@icon.co.za</A>] Sent: 20 January 1999 16:47 To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: [SuSE Linux] Pre-install SuSE on a HD ========================================== WARNING: External Email: This message was received from a source external to HSAM and therefore the sender's identity cannot be verified. ========================================== A friend in the UK is keen to try Linux - I suspect he may have had ago, and, as even more of a newbie than I, had mixed success... I naturally have been boasting about my humble successes with SuSE v 5.3 and the wonders of YaST. He is flying out from London in a few days, and has asked that if he brings a HD with him, that I install SuSE plus my setup to encode audio - ie install a working Real Audio Encoder, a mixer, and some sample shell-scripts etc so that he can pop it into his nice new PC in London on his return... Even I know it can't be quite that easy - I have no idea what hard-ware he has etc. But I'm wondering if it might be possible to do an install in such a way that all he has to do on his return is to re-install the basic system, then mount the partition where I've put the audio software etc. Is this at all a practical proposition??? How might I go about it? Any suggestions would be very welcome... TIA Richard King Johannesburg - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>