Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:22:49PM EDT, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> > 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 :-)
> also check your fstab to see if you are using labels or device names
OK.
You're telling me this won't work because I need grub's stage 1 in the
boot sector, right?
Thanks,
cga
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