On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Keith Winston wrote: > Hal Watson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > [trimmed] > > I would like to transfer my existing RedHat 8.0 installation to this > > new computer by simply installing my Linux hard drive as hdb. I'm > > guessing that I will need to re-install GRUB somehow onto hda. > > > > Will this work? Will RedHat detect any hardware changes on this new > > system when it boots up (I'm thinking maybe the video card, modem, > > various ports, other...) ? > > It is possible to install your linux disk in the new computer, reinstall > grub on the boot sector of disk 1, and boot in to runlevel 3 (command > prompt) but not 5. Red Hat will likely detect many changes in your > configuration, but it won't adjust everything automatically, especially > with regards to video card, network card, etc. I actually moved my RH8 from one model Dell laptop to another by just pulling the drive out and moving it, and it very smoothly detected all new hardware. I did boot to runlevel 3 and ran redhat-config-xfree86, and that worked fine too, except that it forgot it was emulating a 3-button mouse and swapping CRTL and CAPSLOCK. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
