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Re: [LUG] no job control?

 

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:16 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:34:16 +0000
> Neil Williams wrote:
> > Umm, is this a harddrive pre-configured on a different machine and now
> > inserted into a machine with a different motherboard etc?
> > 
> > Various configuration settings are hardware-specific not in terms of
> > architecture but in terms of the actual chipsets used on the board.
> > Packages installed and configured for one motherboard are unlikely to
> > work with a completely different board.
> > 
> > Reinstall.
> 
> Would it not be possible to boot from a 'rescue medium',
> chroot/pivotroot to the 'old' system and reconfigure?

Possible - depends on how the harddrive is setup. If there is a
separate /home partition then a reinstall would be quicker, smoother and
a lot less hassle. If /home would be clobbered by the installer
reformatting the partition, then a pivotroot would be the only way to
rescue the data. It depends how important it is to preserve the data
already on the harddrive (and whether a rescue medium is able to boot
and mount it).

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