Re: [SLUG] SuSE 8.1

From: Frank Roberts - SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 21:52:37 EDT


On Wednesday 09 October 2002 13:00, sanity wrote:
> --- Frank Roberts - SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > First I recognized that no upgrade from any distribution was going t work
> > very well
>
> Yes. I know it's cruel, but I laugh at anyone who tries to upgrade an OS.
> I've know better since I was 16 (four years ago).
>
> > Second I purchased 2 interchangeable drawers for hard drives. You can get
> > these at Comp USA for about $20.00 each. I do not recommend the ones from
> > Thompson Computer or others although they are physically just as good
> > because
>
> <snip>
>
> > Third I obtained Two 20 GB HD drives and one 80 GB drive. I mounted the
> > two 20 GB drives in the two drawers.
> >
> > Fourth I mounted one of the drawer holders in one of the case's front CD
> > sized holds and the 80 GB hard drive permanently inside.
> >
> > Fifth I set the cables such that the 20 GB drive located in the drawer
> > was hda and the 80 GB was hdb.
>
> Crazy! Instead of all that... just open the computer, hook up another
> harddrive (you don't have to screw it in or anything, just slap the ribbon
> cable on and get going!), tell the BIOS to auto-detect it, mount it from
> your current os, copy your data onto it. Now fry the old OS, install the
> new one, then get the data back, obviously! Then disconnect the drive and
> you're done.

Did that at first too and it worked until I burned up a hard drive and lost
the whole works. That was when I got smart and decided that a $20 investment
in drawers was worth the investment.

Thanks but NO THANKS once burned like that is enough.

Thanks
Frank



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