On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:31 AM, green wrote:
> Are you saying that you booted from a drive that was connected externally via
> a
> USB/PATA or USB/SATA adapter?
no, but the option does exist.
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jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-28 22:05 -0500:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green wrote:
> > Sjoerd mentioned using chroot; are you? Hmm, maybe you need to bind mount
> > proc, sys, and dev also...
>
> i did try a chroot into the external drive per someone else instructions.
>
> > "Check
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green wrote:
> Sjoerd mentioned using chroot; are you? Hmm, maybe you need to bind mount
> proc, sys, and dev also...
i did try a chroot into the external drive per someone else instructions.
> "Check your device.map" means look at /boot/grub/device.map. It sho
jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-28 10:42 -0500:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman
> wrote:
> > Finally, chroot to /media/newdrive, do a grub-install /dev/sda (or
> > whatever other device your new drive is mounted on),
>
> everything is copied over to the new drive. grub-install i
jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-28 10:45 -0500:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, green wrote:
> > Yeah, I forgot to mention checking /etc/fstab.
>
> truthfully i dont know what i should be looking for here, but this is
> a nano of fstab
Basically, you just want to make sure that the partitions
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, green wrote:
> Yeah, I forgot to mention checking /etc/fstab.
truthfully i dont know what i should be looking for here, but this is
a nano of fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman
wrote:
> Finally, chroot to /media/newdrive, do a grub-install /dev/sda (or
> whatever other device your new drive is mounted on),
everything is copied over to the new drive. grub-install is kicking me however.
# grub-install /dev/sdb1
grub-probe:
On 2010-03-20 11:49, green wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-20 09:31 -0500:
On 2010-03-20 09:06, green wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 21:55 -0500:
I'm impressed. What airflow? On my Thinkpad ?43, without proper
airflow the internal fan starts spinning loudly.
What do you mean by
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-20 09:31 -0500:
> On 2010-03-20 09:06, green wrote:
> >Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 21:55 -0500:
> >>I'm impressed. What airflow? On my Thinkpad ?43, without proper
> >>airflow the internal fan starts spinning loudly.
> >
> >What do you mean by airflow?
>
> Under
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote at 2010-03-20 10:30 -0500:
> Finally, chroot to /media/newdrive, do a grub-install /dev/sda (or
> whatever other device your new drive is mounted on), and check that if
> you have a swap partition the pointers in /etc are still okay. When
> done, reboot. If things fail, you'll
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman
wrote:
> Probably the easiest way is to get yourself a usb 2.5'' sata case. Get
> the old drive out of your laptop and put the new one in. Boot with a
> live cd (knoppix, debian) and make the partitions to your liking on the
> new drive. Then, mount
green schreef:
>> ok, does it help if i have another machine where i can mount both the
>> old laptop drive and the newer laptop drive and then do a copy
>> everything from old to new and still retain a working machine?
>
> You need a separate Linux, ideally. So you can use a different computer w
On 2010-03-20 09:06, green wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 21:55 -0500:
On 2010-03-19 20:58, green wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 02:24 -0500:
7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put
one in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying
so
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 21:55 -0500:
> On 2010-03-19 20:58, green wrote:
> >Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 02:24 -0500:
> >>7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put
> >>one in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying
> >>something that small.)
>
On 2010-03-19 23:07, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/19/2010 2:24 AM:
7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put one
in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying something
that small.)
Ron, your calculator is borked. A 7200 rpm drive
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/19/2010 2:24 AM:
> 7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put one
> in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying something
> that small.)
Ron, your calculator is borked. A 7200 rpm drive spins at 120 rotations per
second, not 1
On 2010-03-19 20:58, green wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 02:24 -0500:
7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put
one in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying
something that small.)
ThinkPad T61 here with 7200RPM SATA HD:
# hddtemp /dev/sda
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-03-19 02:24 -0500:
> 7200RPM (remember, that's 1200RPS) drives get *hot*. I wouldn't put
> one in a laptop. (It's one of the tradeoffs you make for buying
> something that small.)
ThinkPad T61 here with 7200RPM SATA HD:
# hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: WDC WD3200BEKT-**
jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-18 22:52 -0500:
> i am considering installing a larger drive.
> debian linux lenny running on a lenovo thinkpad x61 tablet. hard disk
> currently in system is a 80gig slow lil 5400rpm sata. looking to
> upgrade to a 7200 160 or 250 drive
> what i am hoping for howev
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:45 -0400 (EDT), jeremy jozwik wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> IOW, without telling us what kind of laptop you have, WTF makes you think
>> that we can help you???
>
> as this is the debian list figured most would assume this is a d
On 2010-03-18 22:52, jeremy jozwik wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Do you mean the "replace the existing drive with a larger capacity drive"
form of "beefing up"?
yes. exactly that, i am considering installing a larger drive.
What exactly were your search terms?
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, ~Stack~ wrote:
> Hope this helps!
> ~Stack~
greatly. thank you.
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jeremy jozwik wrote:
> what i am hoping for however is to more or less mirror the current
> drive / instillation over to the larger drive that will be installed.
> i would rather not have to re-install debian and all its
> configurations to the larger
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Do you mean the "replace the existing drive with a larger capacity drive"
> form of "beefing up"?
yes. exactly that, i am considering installing a larger drive.
> What exactly were your search terms?
something along the lines of "debian migr
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:36:08 -0400 (EDT), jeremy jozwik wrote:
>
> hello list. i am contemplating beefing up my laptops hard drive. i did
> a little google search and most of the hits seem to be forum posts.
> and those that are not use different methods.
>
> this is a big move so i would like to
On 2010-03-18 18:36, jeremy jozwik wrote:
hello list. i am contemplating beefing up my laptops hard drive. i did
Do you mean the "replace the existing drive with a larger capacity
drive" form of "beefing up"?
a little google search and most of the hits seem to be forum posts.
and those that
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