Carroll Grigsby wrote: >Currently, my drives are set up as follows: >Primary master (hda) - old, slow, and possibly flakey IDE. Win98SE only >with two FAT32 partitions >Primary slave (hdb) - nice ATA100 IDE. Mandrake 8.1 with /, /boot, >/home, /swap, /archives partitions -- some Reiser and some ext2. >Secondary master (hdc) - CD-ROM >Secondary slave (hdd and scd0) - CD-RW > >I just bought a new Maxtor ATA 133 IDE HD to replace the windows drive. The >plan is to move my current windows installation to it. (Yeah, I know, but >there's some stuff that doesn't work in Linux.) I've done this before and >it's worked well. I'll have about 10 gb free space there for future use. > >Problem: Maxtor wants each of the two hard drives to be set up as the master >on separate channels. My concern is that Mandrake will move from hdb to hdc, >and the CD-ROM goes from hdc to hdb. Is this going to create problems, or is >there a simple way to do this? FWIW, a complete 8.1 reinstall wouldn't be all >that big a deal, but if there's a simpler way I'd like to hear about it. > >-- cmg > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > OK
just edit /etc/fstab and substitute /dev/hdc for /dev/hdb wherever you see it, then makecertain your CD drives are correctly identified then put the drive in as master on channel 1 and boot from the install CD with F1 and the splash screen and typing "rescue" without the quotes do the root mount provided from the rescue then edit /etc/lilo.conf change the root devices there to point to the proper partitions on drive c then /sbin/lilo If that seems complicated, a fresh install is a good option--don't format /home. Civileme
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