Can one install Linux on a dedicated hard disk on one machine, then move that disk to another machine and boot from it? I know Windows won't allow you to do that, but can it be done with Linux?
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I've been landed with a disk from a friend whose machine we've never managed to get into the BIOS of and tweak the boot order to include a CD drive.
I pulled the disk from my own system and ran a from-scratch install on this shiny blank disk with numerous of the tweaks I like and he'll need. (Getting pleased with how the time to usable is still dropping doing an install).
What I'm concerned about is sticking this disk in his machine and using it. I've gone with the sort-of generic 32-bit base even though both his machine and mine are Athlons. However, he's a musician and has some rather nice audio kit - as well as, I suspect, different video hardware.
Am I likely to hit noticeable problems? Is there some script I can arm myself with to rescan available hardware and update config, or can someone give a list of packages to completely remove then reinstall via the recovery boot?
I know the latter option may well cause some dependency problems that see stuff I've already installed lost - I can cope with that if I can get the GUI running smoothly.
Evolution 2.10.1 how do I move my settings to a new machine?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to install Ubuntu 10.04 to another machine alongside that other machine's XP. I know I could just run the install disc; but I'd like to take what changes I've made to Ubuntu along with it - for instance, TrueCrypt, Simple Backup, AdobeReader 3 (I think that's an addition), K3b, MuseScore, and some other applications I've added along the way. Also, I went thru some Terminal commands to get Brasero to copy CD's recently and would like to avoid doing that again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a pc with a very slow hard drive. I wanna move the whole content of this drive to a new drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to install Ubuntu (latest stable) on a VirtualBox machine, set it up, install several apps, and then deploy it on a real PC. I think the main issue is the new hardware (which sould be different from the 'virtual' one). What should I do at that time? Is Ubuntu able to detect and install the new hardware?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy boot disk is failing! I am a little nervous, so I'd like to have extra eyes on this so that I don't fubar it.
My setup is as follows, with WinXP and Ubuntu living on completely separate drives:
The boot disk (WinXP with grub2 on MBR) is failing. I need to replace it, pronto.
Do I need to get any data from the MBR on the failing disk before removing it?
Should I make the Karmic disk bootable and install grub on it before removing the failing boot disk?
Once I have Windows (re)installed on a new disc (which will still be /dev/sda) I want to install GRUB2 to its MBR and re-instate the old (current) boot options. How should I do this?
I have windows 7 installed in my internal laptop hard disk and I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 "the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011", on my external hard disk. The problem I am facing is that the GRUB have been installed on the hard disk, for that reason if my laptop have restarted I need the hard disk to be attached to it to load the GRUB and to log in to windows. I need guidance in moving the GRUB to my internal hard disk or return the windows boot loader in charge, so I can boot my windows without the hard disk.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI cannot install F11/12 into Sata hard disk with AMD SB700 neither full installation image or live image in USB drive. It cannot find the hard disk in my machine. But all the things are working fine with F10 installation. Does anyone have the same issue
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow do I reconfigure grub when adding a disk to a machine where both disks have their own MBRs? I have two volumes:Disk 1 - actually mirrored RAID-1 drives managed by ICH9R on the motherboard Disk 2 - a single drive managed by ICH9R on the motherboard, but without RAID. Disk 1 is the "old" disk containing WinXP on the first partition. The MBR of Disk 1 was created by Windows. Disk 2 was built on the machine while Disk1 was unplugged. Disk2 has Win7 on /dev/sda1 and Fedora 12 on /dev/sda7. Obviously, Disk 2 has grub installed on its own MBR.
When I plug-in both Disk 1 and Disk 2 at the same time, I would like to reconfigure grub so that it gives me the option to switch between WinXP on Disk 1, Fedora on Disk 2 and Win7 on Disk 2. (I may also want to install Ubuntu on another partition of Disk 1, but that's a separate issue.) The problem is that when I plug in Disk 1, Disk 1 becomes /dev/dm-0 and Disk 2 becomes /dev/sdc (instead of /dev/sda as when I installed it). (I don't think I can switch this order because I'm worried that Windows will become confused.) So, how do I keep all partitions the same and get them all to work from grub? On which MBR will I need to install grub? How do I configure it to see all 3-4 of my operating systems? Do I fix grub from the Fedora LiveCD?
I've been running my Dell Mini 9 with the latest alpha for 10.04 since January, but over the weekend I botched things pretty badly and decided to go back to 9.10.I saved my home directory to another machine, and proceeded to install from a 9.10 USB disk. Things didn't go terribly well (I kept seeing "devkit-disks-daemon" crashing) but the install did complete. I shutdown the netbook, yanked the USB drive and powered it back on only to be greeted the grub menu. Choosing any option yields: Code:error: out of memoryPress any key to continue...I did a little searching in places like:HTML there is no mention of that problem there, and running though the command line instructions has the same results. (the linux command seems to be the problem)I've tried re-installed grub from the directions on the page but it is failing with:
Code:
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/boot/grub/ufs1.mod': Input/output error
When I look up that file I see:
[code]...
I have set up a new machine with Lucid and installed Thunderbird 3.0.4. I want to move the mail account etc from the old machine to the new. I understand that I have to copy the 'thunderbird' folder in 'home' to the new machine. However, if I don't create a mail account profile in the new machine, this folder doesn't show up.
I don't want to end up with duplicate inbox folders when I copy over the old profile.
What's the correct way to do this? When I have done it before, I always seem to end up with multiple (empty folders)
I have two servers on my network (at home). Let's call them A and B.
I have a small shell script that I have written on server A that zips up a file, backs up a database. It's triggered by cron once a day.
After I run it, I would like to move this file from server A to server B.
As I said, both are on the same network (in the same room, actually), and so obviously have different network IPs.
What are my options to move these files? It would need to be something that was done in perhaps a shell script that was, like the shell script that zips the files, is triggered by a cron job.
I'm assuming there are actual applications for this sort of theng (rsync?), but can it be done with a shell script? It seems very simple and basic...
How might this be done?
Systems:
Server A - CentOS v. 5
Server B - RHEL v. 4
I have a netbook running ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and it is connected to the internet using DSL high speed internet Comcast---standard coaxial cable to modem to ethernet cabel to my netbook. The wired connection is Auto eth0. It works fine.
However, I have recently installed ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition on ANOTHER laptop and cannot get it to connect to the internet using this same modem and cable. When I plug in the ethernet cable it searches for wireless networks but won't recognise the wired network connection---Wired Network disconnected. Auto eth0 shows up under Network Connections and it has the MAC address and is set to connect automatically. I have tried restarting the computer and unplugging and plugging in the modem after about 15 min.
why I cannot just move my comcast ethernet cable from one machine to another?
If i download files from the internet to the ubuntu home download folder will that kill off windows viruses? Ive also have avast on demand scanner-but are anti-viruses effective against windows viruses these days?
View 6 Replies View Relatedhow to move var which is on the 8MB ROM to Hard disk? I have following scenario:
1/ On IBM powerPC with 8MB ROM and 64MB RAM
2/ Entire Linux 2.6.9 OS with application the image size is 5.1MB
3/ The image get flashed in to ROM and creates var directory on ROM area
4/ Recent upgrade with Hard drive for 60GB gave more storage power
5/ Hence, moving var on to hard disk IS first priority, so var store larger size of data and log, following is snapshot of content on ROM
Code:
bin etc lib proc sbin sys var
dev hdd mnt root share tmp var_init
My goal is ....
1/ Move var to hard disk with all its contents
2/ the IDE hard disk recognised by OS as hdd and mounted in ROM as directory
3/ Once var is moved on the hard disk then OS should look for all setting and data, log etc on hard drive based var directory hence kernel must look for all necessary files on hdd/var directory
4/ The original var could be remain on ROM but made empty and not to be used by OS.
5/ The entire OS on ROM area is READ only and cannot be deleted i.e. var directory hence only var contents moved to hdd/var directory.
6/ The file /etc/fstab is completely blank with zero size.
I am using openSUSE 11.1. I recently installed an additional hard drive since running out of space. New drive up and running, used Yast Partitioner successfully.
2 questions as follows:
1) New drive still has Windows XP on one of its partitions..Can I easily implement/set up for dual boot?
2) More importantly, I need to move root ("/") of file system to new drive "sdb" since more space available but not certain correct way to do this
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I have installed ubuntu on my 40 gb hard drive. I bought 160 gb hard drive and now i want to move ubuntu installation from 40 gb drive to 140 gb drive. How to ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe performance of my suse install under Virtual Box is starting to affect my work, and I really need access to my real multi core CPUs - can I take my vm and stick it on a bootable SD or external HD?I've read the howto move existing linux installation to usb-flash and make it bootable? but it didn't work for me (I'm not convinced I copied correctly).
View 1 Replies View RelatedMove centos to another hard disk?
My box is centos 5.4 x86 on one hrad disk. Now I have a problem at this hard disk, so I want to ove centos to another hrad disk.
But backing up centos and restoring them another hard disk is not so easy and takes so much time.
I heard Partimage" can backup hrard disk and restoring it to another hard disk.
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My box has one LVM composed 3 partitions on one hard disk.
Can I move centos to another hard disk with partimage?
Ages ago I installed Linux on a "spare" 40GB disk and I don't remember how, but that disk is where I still boot the computer from, in Bios it's listed as a primary master and HD0.
Over the time my installs moved to the "main" disk where it is now Suse 11.3 alongside Windows.
I want to get rid of that original "spare" disk altogether, physically take it out, but don't know how to move the bootloader to the "main" one.
I'm confused by all the options offered in Yast Boot Loader Location menu.
Can I just tell it to put itself into a custom boot partition and point it to dev/sdb, the current designation of the "main" disk?
Would I need to edit Grub as well? I figure the current "sdb" would be called "sda" after I take the old disk out. Would it be safe to simply rename /sdb entries, things like /sdb4 to /sda4 and so on?
Additional question - I used to play with Win7 demo, deleted that now, but its loader still pops up when I boot into Windows with their "earlier version of operating system" menu. Their offered solution is to run "mbrfix" from a WinXp recovery CD.
My question - what would that mbrfix do to the Linux bootloader and how can I get it to point back to to Grub afterwards?
It appears that my HDD is failing at the moment, so I'm going to replace it by two new disks (RAID1) over the weekend.
At the same moment I'll stick in another 6GB RAM. Because I'm currently running the 32-bit system, I'll be upgrading to 64-bit (doh).
Now then, is it possible to copy all Firefox and Thunderbird settings (settings, accounts, bookmarks, cookies etc) over to the other disk?
If so, which folder(s) do I have to copy?
In /media/....Directory not empty, maybe "/temp/..." is not an ubuntu image
I'm having this problem trying to load a gparted live ISO onto a usb drive. I want to resize my current extended partition so would rather dl just the gparted ISO than the Ubuntu one as it's taking ages (really slow).
I've tried downloading the gparted ISO a couple of times as I thought the dl might have been corrupted but I can't create a startup disk from the ISO.
(can I use an Ubuntu 9.0.4 live cd for gparted on my 10.04 build? )
I would like to move a user's home directory to a different disk. Is there a "clean" way to do this? Specifically, is it safe to just copy all the .* files to the new destination and then change the home in the user config? Or are there maybe environment entries with absolute paths which will cause problems with this strategy?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an Asus eeePC 1001PX which I have installed Linux to. With a 160 GB hard drive, space is limited, which makes it a problem for me that Asus has chosen to place the 16 GB Windows Recovery partition (which I intend to keep in case of emergency or sale) in the middle of the disk, essentially preventing me from partitioning the disk to my liking with one partition taking up the entire drive (except the space used by the recovery partition. Is there any way to move the recovery partition to the beginning or to the end of the disk without breaking it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have three disk in my system. One SATA (250GB) and two SCSI (73GB) disks. The Two SCSI disks were installed originally and RHEL3 is installed on it. The SATA disk is installed a few years later with RHEL5. As you can see below, the boot sector is still on one of the SCSI disks (sdb1).
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 236545184 15259760 209075624 7% /
/dev/sdc2 68539636 4578792 60479160 8% /users
/dev/sdb1 101089 26847 69023 29% /boot
/dev/sdb3 68437272 36963704 27997104 57% /RHEL3U7
tmpfs 2025916 652 2025264 1% /dev/shm
How I can move the boot sector from the SCSI disk (sdb) to the SATA disk (sda) without losing data and without re-installation?
I added another disk to an old Dell Dim2400 that had one HD. It was a blank disk, and instead fo re-loading and re-configuring SuSE, F10, and PCLOS, I did a cp command from another multi-boot computer, like so:
Code:
cp /dev/sda dev/sdd
sda is an 80G Seagate, with SuSE, F10, and PCLOS.
sdd is an 80G Western Digital.
The copy went perfect. It begins to load SuSE in the old Dell, showing new peripheral hardware, but it stops when it realizes it's on a WD and not on a Seagate. The line is something like, 'Looking for dev/by-uid=xxx-123-Seagate-yyy'. It asks if I want to go to the next device to boot up. I enter 'NO', because it will go to Windows.
It then exits to 'bin/sh' prompt (or something close (shell?)).
Can I boot LiveCD and modify this so it completes the load?
I'm trying to add a new hard disk to a fedora 12 machine. I have ran fdisk - OK. when I call mkfs.ext3 it sais device is muonted but when I call unmount it sais "not mounted".
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn Ubuntu I can easily transfer packages from offline machine into online machine using APTonCD feature. In fedora ,Is there anything similar by which I can transfer my packages of online machine into the offline machine
View 2 Replies View Related2 quad core 2.4ghz westmere processors
24GB of RAM
GTX 460 GPU driving two widescreens
4 each 1TB WD disks all software striped and split between two PCI express channels an SSD containing a read only Fedora14 and housing the volatile files on a software striped volume. I run the proprietary NVIDIA driver and kernel 2.6.35.10-74The machine is an engineering workstation. It seems like however the I/O channel is handled in Linux doesn't scale well to larger machines with more CPUS and more memory. When I do a disk intensive operation like copying files from one location to another the X server response becomes dismal. I've tried raising the priority of X and lowering the priority of the IO bound processes but that doesn't help. Binding processes to specific cores doesn't help either. I haven't changed the default HZ setting or the default scheduler algorithm from stock Fedora.
I have a machine with 14 cores/threads sitting idle but pi$$ poor interactive response while doing disk IO.If I set up a huge ramdisk and do all operations through it then I don't notice the bottleneck. Raw sustained reads on my stripes range from 400MB/s on outer cylinders to 250MB/s on the inner cylinders. The numbers for writes are as expected.
