Re: Moving a drive to another computer

[Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>]

On Wed, 19 May 2010, Paul E Condon wrote:

> On 20100519_124653, 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?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Vince.
>
> Since your asking I assume you've never done it before.
> Split the job into two separate tasks:
> 1) Get the pix off.
> 2) Install 5.0.4
>
> 1) install the drive as a second HD on a computer that boots
> from the first HD, and explore what is on the drive. Mount your
> friend's drive ro (read only). Depending on how many pix you find,
> choose an appropriate storage medium to copy pix to.
>
> Then 2) install 5.0.4, which will be much less nerve wracking if you
> don't have to worry about losing the pix.

I'm just not sure about the linux part.  The first thing I did was
copied the entire windows drive to one on my desktop.  The pix and
stuff are safe.  I just want the installation on her end to be as
painless (for both of us) as possible.

I just set up my daughter's machine the same way this one will be
set up so I'm going to apply the suggestions I got earlier to my
daughter's drive and move it to another machine (or three) and see
how it goes.  I'm really not a fan of surprises!

Thanks!
Vince.
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