Matthew O. Persico wrote:
You don't really provide enough information. Simplest way is to borrow the hard disk from the source machine and put it on the new machine for the following exercise:I am transplanting my cdrom, video card and hard disk from a dual CPU PII 266 box to a single CPU PIV 1.7GHz box.I am betting that I can simply choose the non-smp kernel when I boot up to get me going. If I lose the bet, I am going to have to re-install. I thought there was a way to put the list of RPMs on a disk so that when you re-install, you don't have to slog through all the menus to chose what you want. Does anyone know the command to make the file and how to invoke it during the install?
1. Use Partition Magic to copy the Linux partition to the same Linux partition name on the new machine.
2. If you copy to another partition, all you need to change on the new machine is all the mentions of the old partition in /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf, then as root run new lilo.
2 may require you to make a temporay new linux minimum-size partition, or there may be enough from CD1's rescue mode to do the job.
3. Return the source hard disk.
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