Todd Walton wrote:
On 5/26/05, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I upgraded the HDD in my laptop from a 20GB to a 100GB drive. This
means a new OS install on the new drive.
Any reason you didn't just copy over your existing (working)
installation? Because it's a laptop and you couldn't have two drives
in there at once maybe?
No. I bought an external USB case for the old drive when I bought the new drive.
I also copied all files from the old drive to my other 250GB external HDD (took
a REALLY long time on USB 1.0) before I installed the new one.
The reason for the complete re-install was because I had RHEL WS on it and I
didn't like it. It was also easy to upgrade many old packages be upgrading the
OS. Upgrading to/from RHEL is not a good idea (as I found out), and even though
copying Linux from old to new drive is easy, copying the W2K partition and
having it work is another thing entirely. As a final not, the larger drive
allowed me to partition the drive into 9 partitions instead of the two that were
on the 20GB drive - a much nicer and safer (for data) layout.
Now, to give an update on the issue. I went through the list of running services
for a third time, disabled several, and the NIC is working. I noticed ipv6tables
was running (I did an "Everything" install), and I think maybe that could have
been part of the problem. I'll mess with some of the services I disabled
tomorrow and see exactly which one caused the problem for future "Oh, I remember
this!" reference.
One final note. The 250GB external drive is now far faster than it was under
RHEL WS (as reported by hdparm). Really no big surprise.
PGA
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