On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:03:18 +1100, "Ron Stodden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said: >Matthew O. Persico wrote: >> I am transplanting my cdrom, video card and hard disk from a dual CPU PII 266 box >to a single CPU PIV 1.7GHz box. >> >> I am betting that I can simply choose the non-smp kernel when I boot up to get me >going. >> >> If I lose the bet, I am going to have to re-install. >> >> I thought there was a way to put the list of RPMs on a disk so that when you >re-install, you don't have to slog through all the menus to chose what you want. Does >anyone know the command to make the file and how to invoke it during the install? > >You don't really provide enough information. Simplest way is to borrow >the hard disk from the source machine and put it on the new machine for >the following exercise:
Not necessary. I'm not borrowing the disk, I'm moving it. Period. The old machine is going out to pasture. After I drop the disk in the new machine, I will do the re-install, taking care NOT to format any partitions other than / /usr /var /tmp and swap. I have since figured out that auto_inst.cfg is the file I need to restore the rpms as previously built. See previous note in this thread. Thanks -- Matthew O. Persico
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