On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:55 -0600, linuxguy wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > Cloning the hard drive is possible. However, there is no defined upgrade > > path from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system. Of course, you can continue to > > run a 32 bit Fedora build on your 64 bit CPU. > > My .i386 kernel will continue to run on the dual AMD 64 processor ? I > knew it would run a 32 bit version of Windows, but I thought it would > need a different version of the Linux kernel. Am I wrong ? You can run 32-bit if you want. It should work fine. > > You won't get the advantages > > of running 64 bit code, but a 32 bit Fedora will boot just fine on a 64 bit > > CPU. > > OK, guess that answers that. > > > As far as how to get data off your old laptop drive, I heard that there's a > > great gadget out there called "Google", that can help you find this stuff > > out right away, without waiting for someone on a mailing list to help you. > > About 30 seconds of Googling turned up the following article, which tells > > you everything you need to do: > > > > http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5160538.html > > Sorry, no cigar. My old hard drive is 80 GB and it has Windows XP on > the first partition. The new hard drive is 250 GB and has Vista with > all the drivers for the new hardware. I need to run the new hard drive. > > I am already using the hard drive adapter mentioned in that article. > My laptop quit a couple weeks ago. I'm running the laptop hard drive > in an old (slow) Dell desktop while I wait for the new laptop to > arrive. This is what I do whenever I change machines: back up all user data (/home), make a list of all installed rpms (rpm -qa), plus key stuff like /etc/fstab, /etc/yum.repo.d (in fact all of /etc is probably a good idea), then install a fresh system on the new machine. You'll be amazed at how much stuff you end up not reinstalling :-) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
