Subject: Re: Swapping YDL hard drive
From: Terry Allen (hmag@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 17:30:20 MST
>It could be a bit tricky. I assume that the new Cheetah drive has MacOS on
>it - you need this to boot YDL via BootX. I assume also that the Cheetah
>drive is the second SCSI drive and hence appears as sdb. When you do the
>drive swap you will remove the current startup disk and replace it with the
>Cheetah. As far as Linux is concerned that drive will become sda. You
>will need to edit /etc/fstab on the Cheetah drive to use sda instead of sdb
>and be careful to get the partition numbers correct. You must then specify
>the new root partition in BootX.
>
>I hope this covers everything - if all fails, you may need to reinstall so
>don't do this unless you're happy to lose all your data.
>
> Iain
>
Hi again,
Thanks for that - the Cheetah drive is actually the first drive &
shows up as sda, in case that helps matters.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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