Hmmm. That's an intriguing concept. - Check my thinking on a variant. I'm currently running twin 160 Gb drives in a RAID 1 configuration and I'm not even at 50% yet.
Could I not turn off the RAID (temporarily) do an Ubuntu install on ONE of the drives then do the /home copy over to the new install. Test and verify then re-do the RAID based on the new install? Dennis On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:25 -0700, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 09:59 -0700, Dennis Bagley wrote: > > > I am sorely tempted to replace the Suse distro in my office with Ubuntu. > > The only thing holding me off is the time to fully backup all my > > critical stuff and re-install everything I'm using. (I know St. Murphy > > is going to double any time I plan for it and I don't have a lot of time > > to spare at the moment.) > > Bah! Why back up? Go to newegg.com and order the largest hard disk you > can afford, say a 400GB, and drop it in as the primary disk. Disconnect > the old disk, perform the Ubuntu install. Now you can either: > > 1) Copy your old home directory to the new disk > 2) Use the old disk as your home directory > > You are going to have to reinstall apps like VMware anyway, but if you > are doing things the "UNIX way(TM)", everything should be in /home, and > all you gotta do is copy or mount it. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
