On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:43 -0500, Gerry Doris wrote: > I have a working FC6 system that is running on an old tired PC. The FC6 > install has several non Fedora applications running on it and the > standard applications have the normal modifications. I now want to move > to a new faster PC. > > I loaded FC8 on the new PC and it worked without a problem so I know the > new PC works with FC8. I've configured the new PC hard drive with the > same partitions as my FC6 PC. However, the drives are much bigger on > the new PC and are named differently. For example, the old box has an > hda and hdd but no hdb or hdc for some reason? ---- hda = primary ATA controller, master drive hdb = primary ATA controller, slave drive hdc = secondary ATA controller, master drive hdd = secondary ATA controller, slave drive new computer unlikely to have ATA drives...most are now SATA, new hardware, new designations. F8 requires 'labels' on filesystems F8 uses sda/sdb/sdc, etc. even for ATA controller connected drives ---- > > I really don't want to do a fresh install, load and then configure the > applications from scratch. Ideally, I'd like to copy the FC6 system to > the new PC and then upgrade it to FC8. I know it won't be clean but > I've upgraded in the past and understand the process. I'd also rather > do the upgrade to FC8 on the new PC for a number of reasons. ---- probably really complicating things...better to have a clean install, copy files that you need or even easier, create a new directory, i.e. /home/old-system and copy contents of old hard drives there and get what you need, when you need it ---- > > What is the best way to do this? Can I copy over the contents of the > partitions and then try and modify the key files so it will boot? I'd > have to change grub.conf and fstab but what else would need to be > modified. If I can get the system to boot I'm confident I can make the > other necessary changes . ---- clean install suggestion is the best way to do this. Craig
