Carl Lowenstein wrote:
[snip]
As a non-Windows expert, let me ask how sensitive a Windows
installation is to its hardware environment. Isn't it likely that
transplanting the disk from one computer to another will upset things?
I have done something similar by image copying the Windows
installation from the old smaller disk to the new larger one. The
Linux installer then recognizes the left-over space as un-used and
available for Linux. How well this works must depend on what silly
things Windows might have done with the original partition table.
M$ Windows is likely to barf hard when moved to a new machine as it
won't have the drivers needed to operate the hardware unless the "new"
machine is actually fairly old and likely to have supported hardware.
And there doesn't seem to be an easy way to add drivers beforehand in
planning the move.
Linux, or at least Fedora, is not immune to this problem either because
of the reliance on an initrd and the fact that just about everything is
now a module. During installation of new kernels using the standard
install method from a package creates an initrd that contains ONLY the
drivers for the current hardware. The way around that is to create a new
initrd with the necessary drivers before the move.
Gus
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