Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
William T Wilson said: > Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use There is that, I suppose... The current hda is an older 2.5 G Western Digital drive while hdb is a 6 G Quantum Fireball UDMA. I'm assuming that I'd get better performance out of the Fireball if it wer

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot isn't needed) and considering > swapping the drives so the system is booting Linux from /dev/hda. Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use your new space on /dev/hda for home d

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: esper >If I'm just changing the jumpers on the drives and not moving Linux to a esper >different physical drive, should I be OK with just updating LILO and fstab to esper >reflect the change? Or are there other places that will need to be updated esper

Re: Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've got a system with Win98 installed on /dev/hda1 and Linux on > /dev/hdb1. I'm planning to wipe the Win98 partition (when the Linux > install has 2 months of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot > isn't needed) and considering s

Shuffling drives

1999-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got a system with Win98 installed on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1. I'm planning to wipe the Win98 partition (when the Linux install has 2 months of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot isn't needed) and considering swapping the drives so the system is booting Linux from /dev/hda. If