on 01/14/2006 10:17 PM Tim wrote:
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.
hm... I reconfigured grub but didnt think about fstab, therefore when it
started complaining about some critical stuff missing, because it was
looking for it in a wrong place, I just reinstalled it. Anyway, this was
a long time ago, thus it is not that important anymore. But thanks for
the hint, it might be helpful later.
--
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
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