Re: mounting another disk

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi All,
>   I feel real stupid asking this question as it had already been answered about 
> a month ago for me. At the time I asked I was not in a position to use the info 
> and have since lost all my mail. A long story.
> 
>   I have replaced my RH7.2 hard disks with another and have installed RH 9.0 on 
> it. What I would like to do, now that I have the 9.0 system up, is somehow get 
> my other two 7.2 disks online so I can reference files on them.

Plug them up on the ide cables as secondary master and secondary slave, 
and use a boot disk. Then perhaps move all the files over to either the 
secondary slave (all that matters on it is fs and not OS), then format 
your secondary master.

> 
>   I am sure it can't be that difficult but I am paranoid to try this for fear 
> of losing the data on the 7.2 disks.

You shouldn't lose any data.

> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

HtH

> 
> Oh, I wish this list had a searchable archive.
> 
> Thanks.