Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> > I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and
> > came up with the following plan:
> >
> > 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a
> > useless 100M Omega zip drive currently lives.
> > 2. Lavishly partition the new drive & create the usual file systems.
> > 3. Copy my current partitions to their new drive namesakes.
> > 4. Swap the drives.
> > 5. Reboot.
> >
> > In a perfect world I will be up and running with my current systems and
> > the luxury of a spare hard drive .. right?
> >
> > Is there a catch?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > cga
> >
> >
> The grub, you need to mount it on a chroot with a live cd and make
> grub-install :-)

also check your fstab to see if you are using labels or device names
>
> Regards,
> Jose Luis.
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