[TriLUG] Moving IDE hard drive from one machine to another

[Andrew Perrin]

I would expect it to work adequately, but not perfectly. In particular I'd
be surprised if SMP worked out of the box on the dual-processor
machine. But I've moved IDE drives between hardware before (they booted
debian. not RH) with general success. I think the order would have to be:

- Move drive
- Boot provisionally
- Rebuild kernel as necessary (e.g., for SMP)
- Edit modules information as necessary to match new hardware
- reboot

Cheers,
Andy Perrin

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On Wed, 29 May 2002, David B. Rankin wrote:

> All,
> 
> I want to move the IDE hard drive containing a good, working RH 7.3
> install from one machine to another. The source machine is a Dell P2/233
> with 256 MB of RAM.  The destination machine is Dell Workstation 400
> (Dual P2/300) with 384 MB of RAM.  This would be the only hard drive in
> the new system for now. I might add another drive later. I know I could
> just reinstall RH on the destination system but I have quite a bit of
> time invested in installing applications on the old, source system.
> There is no important data or settings on the source system if the
> experiment goes bad.
> 
> I recall a conversation with a fellow Linux user who had a hardware
> failure in a RH 7.1 machine and moved the IDE hard drive from that
> machine to slightly similar and more powerful hardware.  He claimed that
> Kudzu auto detected and auto configured the Linux install in the new
> box. With that story in mind I post my question to the list.  What do
> you think?
> 
> 
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