On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:49 -0500, oleksandr korneta wrote: > I happened once to install fedora on /dev/hdb, and then physically > made it /dev/hda... Everything was messed up, I had to reinstall the > system (just because I didn't have any other machine close to me to > get alternative solution) That's really not necessary, you could have saved yourself a lot of effort. You'd have had to reconfigure GRUB to use the right drive, and reconfigure /etc/fstab so that your mount points refer to the right drives and partitions, but the software installed on your system doesn't care which drive it's on (hda, sda, etc.), it's only important where it's mounted (/usr/bin/ etc.). Both reconfigurations are easy enough to do. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
