Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?

[maze at cela.pl (Maciej Żenczykowski)]

maybe, but I was under the impression that the computer was dead - not - 
the system...

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dan Pritts wrote:

> 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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