Hi, I am getting a new hard drive, motherboard, and processor. I'm
moving from a single-core Athlon 64 chip to a dual core Ahlon 64 chip.
My current machine has Fedora Core 4. The hard disk partitions look like
this:
[rlc@bobcp4 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
29G 18G 9.7G 65% /
/dev/sda2 289M 38M 236M 14% /boot
none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb2 109G 40G 64G 39% /mnt/any
There are 2 physical hard drives on my machine. The first is a 60 Gb
drive with partitions for Fedora Core 4 and Windows XP. The second is a
120 Gb drive which is mounted on /mnt/any. I want to use a brand new,
much faster 400 Gb drive as sda.
What makes more sense: back up my current /home partition, replace the
motherboard, drive, and processor, then reinstall Fedora Core 4 from the
install DVD (which would detect the new CPU and load an smp kernel) to
the 400 Gb drive and update it with yum, then copy the important stuff
from my backup of /home?
or
partition the new drive and copy / and /boot to it and switch drives?
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Bob Cochran
