Agree w/Mike.
It may be worth the money to get an external drive enclosure, like
a USB or Firewire box. Newegg has some for under $30, and Fry's carries
them too. Search for "drive enclosure".
Then you can just plug in your old hard drives (and re-use them)
without having to power off, unscrew the case, plug in the SATA cables,
etc. everytime you want to use one of the disks. Once everything is
copied over, you could use your old drives as external backups (hint hint).
Finally, note that you'll need to manually find and copy over all
the files you want to keep. (All the great package management features
of RPM won't work from an external / accessory drive.)
[Insert standard lecture about regular backups here.]
--Derek
On 10/19/2010 02:16 PM, Mike Schuh wrote:
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.
