-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 08:11, James Pifer wrote: >I have a RH 7.0 machine with a failing hard drive. I was thinking of >getting a new drive and also upgrading to the current RH release.
Make note of your current partitions. I usually do this like: df -h | lpr If there is any way to backup critical data on the network, or even on floppies, do it. If you have personal web space at an ISP, you can encrypt data using GPG and and upload it. But don't upload ~/.gnupg, save that dir on a floppy instead. Also save /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and the config files for services that you're running. Take a look at the config files under /etc/sysconfig. There's a lot of stuff in /etc, but the stuff you really need to save will probably fit on one floppy. This is all just in case the old drive becomes inaccessible during the new install. Install the new drive, jumpered as master. Change the old drive to slave. Then do a fresh install on the new drive. During the install, you can set the partitions on /dev/hdb (the old drive) as /mnt/old<partitionname> and *do not* format them. For example, if the old partition lay had /home on /dev/hda5, then during the install you would add /mnt/home on /dev/hdb5. Partitions that were on hda would be now be on hdb and mounted under /mnt. You can then copy over as much as you like from the old drive, as long as it's accessible. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD4DBQE9VFF1pCpg3WyUI50RAiQ8AJwO+H5SHUQKSRo+A7A72PjiF+cZcgCY0Ptv uDIAroeT4xLiIvplQXln8w== =7CEC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
