Kevin,
>The challenge now is to recove my data from the old drives, complicated by
>the fact that the system crash occurred while I was in the middle of
>upgrading.
Here's the path I would try:
- fresh install of Your Favorite OS on the big drive in the new system
- mount the two disks from the old system thusly
- /mnt/hda1
- /mnt/hda2
- /mnt/hdb1
... etc.
That is, create a directory 'hda1' in the /mnt directory of the new disk,
then go
mount /dev/<something> /mnt/hda1
where <something> is the partition on the old disk that used to be
/dev/hda1 on the old system. <something> is most likely to be /dev/hdb1 on
the new.
Other naming conventions would work just as well (substitute 's' for 'h' as
appropriate).
If, say, /bin was on hda1 on the old system, on the new system it will be:
/mnt/hda1/bin
Please let us know if this works.
--
Mike Schuh, Seattle USA
