Took me all of an hour to take the internal hard drive out and use the external as the internal and install all over again. Went like a dream.
What gets me is that the 8.10 CD was so flaky about reading the external HD in the first place. Sometimes the external HD would show up in gparted and sometimes it wouldn't when I was trying to install it in what I thought was a straight forward manner.. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you can do the drive swap thing and don't mind the re-install, > that's the easiest plan. > > Would be happy to walk you through the external install at the next > meeting (Feb 1st), except I'll be out of town and won't be at the next > meeting (note to self: must let Nate and Scott know.) > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, Robert. I'm at a coffee shop. I also had another idea. I may >> just take out my hard drive from my laptop and use the external as an >> internal and install again, and maybe just have you walk me through it >> at the next meeting. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
