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Moving Harddrive to another Machine
Name: softech Date: September 7, 2004 at 12:36:00 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: P4
Comment:
Hi, I am using Fedora Linux..
When I am using Windows.. I am pull the harddrive from one machine and put it onto another machine.. when Windows loads up again.. it will see that the new machine and it will try to add all the drivers it needs for this new machine..
How about Linux? If i have a Linux harddrive, can I put that onto another machine and would Linux do the just as automatic as Windows?
Name: technocrap Date: September 7, 2004 at 12:39:46 Pacific
Reply:
Sure works like a charm.... If you have redhat or MDK Kudzu will detect the changes and adjust accordingly. Yast will do the same for SUSE installations. Have fun
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Response Number 2
Name: bits4linux Date: September 8, 2004 at 00:17:54 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
If you are using the new versions if the Redhat then it will automatically detect all the new device drivers during the time of booting.If it not happened run the Kudzu which help to detect the new hardwares.....
Regards Bits4linux
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Response Number 3
Name: softech Date: September 8, 2004 at 09:46:50 Pacific
Summary: I have redhat 9 with the following partitions: --------- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 39G 4.7G 32G 13% / /dev/hda1 487M 18M 444M 4% /boot /dev/hda5 13G 1.1G ...
Summary: Hello All, I have recently put an old hard-drive in my computer with the idea of making it a neutrol drive where i can share files between windows and linux, but I cannot seem too access it. Is there ...
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