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lazyboy
03-09-2001, 10:15 PM
Dear LNO people,
I have been considering removing my dedicated win98 drive (primary master drive /dev/hda) and set my linux drive (secondary master drive /dev/hdc) to be the sole OS in my system. After removing the primary drive, how do I arrange the configurations of my linux drive such as /etc/fstab, etc? I am using Red Hat 6.2 with a 2.4.2 kernel.
Please shed some light on this matter. Thanks a lot.

ph34r
03-10-2001, 01:55 AM
Why not just change the fat32 to ext2, leave linux where it is, and mount your new big empty space as /mp3 or /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/maps or whatever floats your boat?

Stuka
03-10-2001, 02:01 AM
If ya wanna do it that way...make changes to /etc/lilo.conf (telling it where your linux WILL be, rather than where it is), run /sbin/lilo, alter all of /etc/fstab to show your new arrangement (/dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb), pull the drive, make the necessary cabling/jumper adjustments, fire it up, and pray! :D