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Posted: Aug. 05 2004,15:33 |
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Quote (ke4nt1 @ Aug. 05 2004,01:31) | The HD swap from laptop to another box would be the FASTEST. Although I don't relish the idea of disassembly of the laptop itself. They can sometimes be a pain...
Doing it that way will not be a hardware issue.. DSL autoconfigs upon bootup.. You can boot your main box with the laptop hard drive in it, from your DSL CD. Make the laptop HD your HDA drive...
Type "dsl base 2" at the boot prompt, and get to a root shell. Then type "dsl-hdinstall" , and follow the prompts.. After this has completed, it will wish to reboot.. When it starts to reboot, turn it off, so it doesn't get to the xsetup, Then put it back into the laptop, boot, and your good-to-go.. |
Ah, this sounds like the answer I was looking for! The key thing you mentioned is to not let the desktop PC reboot...
Luckily for me, drive access on the laptop has been made quite easy. The laptop is a Toshiba Portege 300CT, and there is a small access door on the bottom of the unit. All I have to do is remove two small screws, remove the door, and the hard drive is right there! The whole removal process takes less than a minute.
I do understand your statement about laptop disassembly being a pain, as I have replaced hard drives in older laptops where I had to dismantle the whole damn thing. Ugh.
Speaking of easy hard drive access, I also have a CTX laptop that I am going to install DSL onto and give to my mom. (yeah, she's 75 years old and a computer junkie, gotta love it!) That laptop has its hard drive mounted in a "caddy", and all you have to do is move the latch into the "unlock" position and it just slides out of the bottom of the machine! Now THAT is easy access!
Thanks for the input, Kent! Nice custom call, BTW.
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