On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, John Ferrell wrote:

>  From "piclist.com is dead" thread
> re:
> "This could be related to other systems it must run with or even just
> having only so many hours in a lifetime to do things in.
> True religions answer to the latter is to tell you how much time you
> will save if you will but convert. Reality often notes that a bird in
> the hand is worth two in the server."
> 
> In my shuffling of computers & Apps I realized I could easily put my 
> long shelved SUSE 10 hard drive back online.
> 
> The plan was to put it on the D: drive while leaving XPPRO on the C: 
> Drive. I would switch between booting C: (XP) or D: (SUSE) by changing 
> the Boot sequence in the BIOS.
> 
> It was just too easy to work for me. SUSE loads to a stop with just a 
> "$" prompt. It was at this point  realized the problem had taken the 
> first step into the series of time consuming forks that wants to take 
> time away from everything else! I have Gigs of Linux documentation. For 
> the moment, SUSE goes back on the shelf until I find a simple "recipe 
> book" or other source that conserves my time and resources to move forward.
> 
> I don't want to be a Linux Guru but I would like to be able to use it!
> 

Many years ago I "moved" a primary Linux hard disc to a different 
position. All I had to do to get it working was change /etc/fstab. If you 
look at this file you will see entries like:

/dev/hda2      /               ext2       defaults              1 1
/dev/hda3      /data1          ext2       defaults              1 2
/dev/hda4      /data2          ext2       noauto,acl            1 0
/dev/hda1      swap            swap       pri=42                0 0

What you need to do is change the drive (e.g. from hda to hdc). You can do 
this easily by simply booting off an installation CD using the rescue 
option. This lets you boot a minimal Linux. You then simply mount your new 
disc onto /mnt edit /mnt/etc/fstab and you're done.

I would strongly recommend you make a backup copy of /mnt/etc/fstab before 
you edit it.

You need to look at linux docs for SUSE 10 to see what the naming 
convention for hard discs and partitions is for that version of linux. I 
know it changed some time ago so that ATA hard disc names and SCSI hard 
discs names became the same. I've looked at SUSE 11.2 and the disc names 
seem to be different again.

When I did this I would have mounted the new hard drive something like:

	mount /dev/sdb /mnt

then edited fstab as

	vi /mnt/etc/fstab

and changed all occurances of sda to sdb

yes the use of hda, hdb, sda and sdb is all correct above - I was moving 
SCSI hard discs around at the time :-)

Hopes this helps get you started.

Regards
Sergio Masci
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