On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 02:08:29PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > The suggestion to disconnect the sda drive while I install the same > version of the operating system on sdc occurred to me, but I worried > about the effect of the resulting change in drive designations. In my > case, by disconnecting sda my sdb becomes sda and my sdc becomes sdb. > Will all of this sort itself out when I reconnect the old sda drive and > boot it? After installing ascii on sdc I probably will have to select > sda as the drive to boot in BIOS and then run update-grub after it is > up.
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