[plug] Swapping disks to another laptop

[psteege at tpg.com.au]

Mike
I will just give it a go, thanks.
The new laptop does have a "similar" Intel CPU, so that may not be as 
much of an issue after all.

Thanks to everyone for their inputs.

Phil

> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 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?
> 
> Nothing special about laptops there AFAIK.
> Just swap the hard drives, and change the BIOS setting for hard-
drive
> geometry - it should have an auto-detect.
>   Of course you may then need to change settings for display, sound,
> ethernet, etc, but it should boot in text mode OK. (or plain 16 
colour
> VGA?)
> 
> > Will the existing kernel, on the disk, reject the hardware 
because it
> > does not match what existed on the original Gateway?
> 
> No, you should just have non-functioning peripherals. Same familily 
of
> CPUs, right?
> 
> > Can I just do another RedHat install and select update, instead of
> > new install ??
> 
> It might be more instructive, and not too hard, to reconfigure more
> manually.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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