moving hard drive

[carlos]

I'm updating my laptop and will be switching my hard drive to the new machine. My question: is mint smart enough to figure out it's in a new machine? Ad will it install most drivers automatically? I figure I'll have to run envy to install the vid driver, but wasn't sure about the rest.

[JAK]

I'm updating my laptop and will be switching my hard drive to the new machine. My question: is mint smart enough to figure out it's in a new machine? Ad will it install most drivers automatically? I figure I'll have to run envy to install the vid driver, but wasn't sure about the rest.

Please let us know how it goes after you've done this. Thanks for being a guinea pig
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[carlos]

Ha! I surely will.

[scorp123]

I'm updating my laptop and will be switching my hard drive to the new machine. My question: is mint smart enough to figure out it's in a new machine?

Should work ... if the laptops are not too different then booting should work OK. Where it probably will fail (especially if the chipsets are different) is:

- X11
- Sound

You'd need to reconfigure those, but that shouldn't be too much of trouble.

[hugh]

Hi, I've done the same thing recently, moving a 60gb hard drive from a Toshiba Tecra to a Panasonic Toughbook.

All went very well, I just had to reconfigure X11 from the command line before I could get into Gnome.

Some of the distros on other partitions didn't fare so well though.

Cheers,

Hugh

[carlos]

Thank you both for the info. I should be doing the switch in a day or 2 so I will let you know how it goes.

I must say if that is all that needs to be configured its a far cry from what happens when you switch a windows formtted HD.

Thanks Again!

[KernelJ]

I notice Windows is invariably fixed to whatever system it was installed on; if the configuration is different it'll throw up a BSOD. There isn't really any good reason why Linux or Windows shouldn't work in a slightly different configuration, except maybe a graphics card, is there?

[carlos]

Well good news. The first transfer of the hard drive has gone very well. I originally had an older model Toshiba and basically got a newer one.

They were similarly specked, but some of the subsystems were a bit different. The only real adjustment needed was video resolution.

The next test will be when I transfer the drive to an IBM r40. Hopefully that will happen on the weekend.

[Husse]

This is interesting - I'll eagerly await the "IBM report"
(mostly posted to get this into my posts so I find it again )

[k.newstead]

Hey have done something very similar from a toshiba sp6100 (don't buy - nothing but trouble) to my IBM X20 ultraportable. Have got it to boot into recovery mode but I don't know how to reconfigure the X11 file to get to GUI (xfce in my case)

If anyone more technically sophisticated could point me in the right direction I'd be really greatful Don't really have the option to reinstall as have no CDROM

cheers

[knewstead]

OK called in the cavalry when all I needed was google. my bad. If you're in a similar situation try this from FreeBSD, worked first time http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

Mint now going like the stink on a PIII 600 with 192ram one less for landfill. Funnily enough boot was quicker (noticably) than on the tosh with 1.7 P4 and 512... not quite sure what to make of that!

[HappyFace]

I took the 40 GB harddisk out of my late IBM Thinkpad R40, and inserted it in my new Dell Latitude D610. It booted almost fine. I only had to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

I had to replace ati width intel and PCI 1:0:0 with PCI 0:2:0. After that everything works just fine.

[Fred]

Did you not correct the changed UUIDs, or were you not using UUID?

Fred

EDIT: Never mind.... dumb question.

[HappyFace]

I didn't change anything. Just edited the xorg.conf-file.

There is no thing as a dumb question!