Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?

[danno at internet2.edu (Dan Pritts)]

possibly better yet, download a knoppix cdrom, boot the dead server 
from that, and mount your disks and copy the data off.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> Yes you should be able to without any major problems.
> The only pitfall maybe that your working system maybe configured to mount
> filesystems by LABEL (ie /etc/fstab LABEL=/ etc) which is never a good 


> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
> 
> >I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE).
> >The machine went down and refuses to boot.
> >I need to recover some data from one of the disks.
> >Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need.
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Prasad


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