On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote: > >>>> My daughter has a PIII with FC5 on it. Troubleshooting flowchart > >>>> indicates power supply died. We're going to the UMN recycle store, > >>>> and get a PIII or newer. Can someone point me to the steps needed to > >>>> take the hard drive out of the dead computer, and put it in the new > >>>> computer, and not lose the data? I'm thinking there might be issues > >>>> with just switching hard drive to another computer with different > >>>> hardware configuration. > >>>> Any help appreciated, > >>> > >>> My advice would be to mount the drive from the dead computer as a > >>> second drive, then wipe the hard disk in the new computer and install > >>> FC6 on that. Put /home on a separate partition on that drive. All your > >>> data, settings, bookmarks, cookies etc. will be on the second drive and > >>> can be copied into the new /home. > >>> > >>> The reason I suggest doing it this way, rather than just using the > >>> /home on the second drive, is that configuration files used in one > >>> version sometimes cause problems in the newer version. This way you > >>> have access to everything you had before, and can use it with the new > >>> setup. > >>> > >>> Of course, you could always just put a new power supply in the existing > >>> computer. > >>> > >>> Anne > >> > >> Anne: the phrase, "wipe the hard disk" is the same as, "install FC6 > >> install CD, and select 'New Install'"? > > > > Depending on the state of the hard disk. If it's a new one, yes. If > > it's an old one, it will have directories already on it, and you'll want > > to get rid of them. All of it is possible in FC6, but some of it not as > > visible as you'd wish. It would probably be easier to prepare the hard > > disk by booting from a rescue disk and running gparted or qparted. I may > > get battered for saying this :-), but if you know someone with a Mandriva > > install or live disk, their partitioning tool is very easy to use and > > very good. You could run the install until after the partitioning, then > > abort and install Fedora, if that's what you want on the disk. > > > > Anne > > Anne: Good points. I got into trouble (still in trouble) when I moved > my old FC5 install hard drive over to another computer as a slave > drive. I installed FC5 on the master drive, but now I have two of those > virtual groups, so the slave group by the same name can't be accessed. > Thanks for reminding me about that little detail. Ah, yes. I have read of people having problems with duplicate labels. You need someone more experienced than me if that could be a problem. It's one I haven't yet come across. Sometime soon, though. :-) Anne
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