[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Jason Rees <JasonR at btr.qld.edu.au> writes:

> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
> 
> Just to try and get this back on the original topic...  I'm going to try
> following the HOWTO by installing the original HD in the new machine and
> mounting them both after booting from a floppy.  This won't require a
> network connection so I shouldn't have to worry about data changing while
> I'm copying.  I'll let you all know how I go.

Well quite frankly all of the methods suggested in section 6 basically
suck.  They'll probably work fine for you, but I'm about to write the
author.

I am however pleased to see they suggest shutting down the machine to
single user mode first, although *I* would also mount the parititions
read-only just in case---network connection or no, there's no other
way to guarantee nothing will write to the disk while you're working.

(I don't mean to give you personally a hard time, and I wish you the
best of luck, I just think the advice could be better.)

jason
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