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Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop



cga2000 wrote:
> I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and
> came up with the following plan:
> 
> 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a
>    useless 100M Omega zip drive currently lives.
> 2. Lavishly partition the new drive & create the usual file systems.
> 3. Copy my current partitions to their new drive namesakes.
> 4. Swap the drives.
> 5. Reboot.
> 
> In a perfect world I will be up and running with my current systems and
> the luxury of a spare hard drive ..  right?
> 
> Is there a catch?
> 
> Thanks,
> cga
> 
> 
The grub, you need to mount it on a chroot with a live cd and make
grub-install :-)

Regards,
Jose Luis.
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