[plug] Swapping disks to another laptop

[Phillip Steege]

I cannot install it as a second drive.  It is a laptop drive.  One of the 
small ones.  It slides into a slot in the laptop similar to pcmcia, but a bit 
bigger.  I only have one other PC and it is a desktop unit.

On Sun,  2 Sep 2001 16:32, Tony Clark wrote:
> On Sunday 02 September 2001 07:37, psteege at tpg.com.au wrote:
> > When I purchase the new laptop, that is compatible with this disk
> > drive, how can I bring the system back online?
> > Will the existing kernel, on the disk, reject the hardware because it
> > does not match what existed on the original Gateway?
> > Can I just do another RedHat install and select update, instead of
> > new install ??
>
> The easist way would be to install the old drive as a second drive and
> mount it.  Otherwise it should still boot the new system, just provide
> proper hardware support.  You maybe able to get it to reconfigure itself
> with a bit of luck.  Give it a go, you shouldn't loose any data.
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