Re: Moving a drive to another computer
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:46:53PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> A friend was running windows and the viruses got the best of it. She
> sent me the drive so I could get her pics and documents off of it and
> put 5.0.4 on it and send it back (she's a few states away).
>
> What problems (and solutions) should I be expecting when she installs
> the drive in her computer? I'm assuming the network setup will be one
> problem.
>
> My background is mainly in FreeBSD. If a drive is set up as being
> /dev/ad0 and the other machine sees it as /dev/ad4 it won't complete
> the boot, it'll complain with a cannot mount root error. Will that be
> an issue with Debian?
>
Besides the fstab and udev issues that others posted, you should be
pretty good. I recommend setting up a button on her desktop that sets
up an ssh tunnel so you can get in and add/fix stuff.
-Rob
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