On Tuesday, December 26, 2000, at 03:50 PM, Holly Henry-Pilkington wrote:
> Tom Eastman wrote:
> > I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer.
> > Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda.
> >
> > How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have
>to tell that
> the hard drive is now in a different place?
>
> Unless you need to move the actual partitions to different physical hard
> drives, editing /etc/fstab to reflect the new locations of your drives
> should basically do the trick.
>
> Holly
If you are moving drive around may also have to run lilo to set the boot info on the
startup disk.
Also, make sure you have a boot/rescue disk ready to go BEFORE you switch things. if
you get lilo wrong on the first try and it can't find / then you're S.O.L.
Gavin
