On Oct 5, 2004 at 14:13, Colin J Thomson in a soothing rage wrote: >On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 13:15, ne... wrote: >> On Oct 5, 2004 at 12:36, Colin J Thomson in a soothing rage wrote: >> >I would like some advice please, I have just updated my Mobo to an Abit >> >NF7-S 2.0 which is working extremely well with Fedora and my next >> > planned upgrade are the Hard Drives. >> >At the moment the machine has 2 Hard drives, ATA133 (40G) and an old >> >ATA33 (5G) for backup. >> >This Mobo has on board SATA150, So my question(s) are: >> > >> >Is it worth it (or at all possible) to install a SATA drive and keep my >> >existing 40Gig drive (for backup) and maybe ditch the 5Gig drive. >> >> Yep, but more a question of when and how much money you have >> burning a hole in your pocket. As you use FC, I guess you will >> be upgrading to FC3. If you are, I would hold of on the purchase >> for a little while. When FC3 drops, get the drive and do a fresh >> install. Then move stuff over from the old install. > >That is a very good point, but I do not have any plans to move to FC3 >perhaps FC4. This Box is very cutomised and it would be a lot of work and >time to upgrade and move stuff over etc. Then in that case, no need to wait. I would investigate using a tool like Mondo (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) or a backup tool to copy the whole drive and restore to the new drive. You will then have to reinstall grub/lilo/$BOOTLOADER after the restore. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. 09:17:55 up 99 days, 2:32, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
