[ale] Fedora and RHN?

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Nov 7 11:42:49 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:37, walter Sams wrote:
> an interesting  concept, just hook up another HD and install on it. Then
> you just remove the old HD?
> 
> If I installed on a new HD for my server, can I point my new installed
> OS to the data stored on the old drive, or do I need to migrate the
> data  folders to the new HD/OS

Symbolic links are your firends.


> 
> Thank you
> Walter Sams
> 
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:56, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On laptops I generally use BBC and dd the entire disk over net.  If
> > I ever need to read it, I'll just use losetup and mount the image file.
> > 
> > On PC's I generally install fresh on a clean hdd.  I still have the
> > old on one the box. I used to try and back them up but my time was
> > more valuable than the cost of a drive.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > 



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