Re: Advice: making the move to all-SCSI

2004-03-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:51:04 + (UTC), Alexis Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The kernel (2.4.24) is compiled with scsi and the necessary items so > > it should be able to boot from a SCSI disk. My thought is to do > > this: > > > > - Install the new SCSI

Re: Advice: making the move to all-SCSI

2004-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 March 2004 04:52 am, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I have a machine that currently has an IDE disk as the boot and / > disk, and everything else is SCSI. I would like to convert this to an > all-SCSI machine, for performance, cleanliness, and fu

Re: Advice: making the move to all-SCSI

2004-03-09 Thread Alexis Huxley
> The kernel (2.4.24) is compiled with scsi and the necessary items so it > should be able to boot from a SCSI disk. My thought is to do this: > > - Install the new SCSI drive > - Mount partitions as necessary and move files to their new locations > (probably using tar cf - . | (cd /newdrive ; tar

Re: Advice: making the move to all-SCSI

2004-03-09 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Perrin) writes: > My concern is with lilo. How do I tell it to install in the SCSI disk's > MBR, not the current boot disk? In the past, it seems like I've had > trouble with that process. > Have you already considered reading lilo's documentation? If all else fails thi

Advice: making the move to all-SCSI

2004-03-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a machine that currently has an IDE disk as the boot and / disk, and everything else is SCSI. I would like to convert this to an all-SCSI machine, for performance, cleanliness, and fun. I'm writing for advice on how to do this. The kernel (2.4.24) is compiled with scsi and the necessary ite