On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 14:21, ne... wrote: > 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: > >> >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. Excellent! this is just what I needed to know, I will dig out the info on restoring the MBR (been a long time since I did that) and start scouring Ebay for a new drive. Thanks! Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 KDE-Redhat-3.3.0-5.0.2.kde Registered Linux user number 342953
