Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
My daughter has a PIII with FC5 on it. Troubleshooting flowchart
indicates power supply died. We're going to the UMN recycle store, and
get a PIII or newer. Can someone point me to the steps needed to take
the hard drive out of the dead computer, and put it in the new computer,
and not lose the data? I'm thinking there might be issues with just
switching hard drive to another computer with different hardware
configuration.
Any help appreciated,
My advice would be to mount the drive from the dead computer as a second
drive, then wipe the hard disk in the new computer and install FC6 on
that. Put /home on a separate partition on that drive. All your data,
settings, bookmarks, cookies etc. will be on the second drive and can be
copied into the new /home.
The reason I suggest doing it this way, rather than just using the /home
on the second drive, is that configuration files used in one version
sometimes cause problems in the newer version. This way you have access
to everything you had before, and can use it with the new setup.
Of course, you could always just put a new power supply in the existing
computer.
Anne
Anne: the phrase, "wipe the hard disk" is the same as, "install FC6
install CD, and select 'New Install'"?
Depending on the state of the hard disk. If it's a new one, yes. If it's an
old one, it will have directories already on it, and you'll want to get rid
of them. All of it is possible in FC6, but some of it not as visible as
you'd wish. It would probably be easier to prepare the hard disk by booting
from a rescue disk and running gparted or qparted. I may get battered for
saying this :-), but if you know someone with a Mandriva install or live
disk, their partitioning tool is very easy to use and very good. You could
run the install until after the partitioning, then abort and install Fedora,
if that's what you want on the disk.
Anne
Anne: Good points. I got into trouble (still in trouble) when I moved
my old FC5 install hard drive over to another computer as a slave
drive. I installed FC5 on the master drive, but now I have two of those
virtual groups, so the slave group by the same name can't be accessed.
Thanks for reminding me about that little detail.
Tom
