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Posted: April 10 2008,15:09 QUOTE
I was thinking of maybe just installing the HD to the other laptop, bypassing the usb hookup altogether, and installing that way. Might that work?
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Posted: April 10 2008,15:14 QUOTE
I think the usb hookup is OK, you just need to boot the other laptop from the cd again then issue the commands I mentioned
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Posted: April 10 2008,15:24 QUOTE
Oh. I get you now. Sorry.

I'll give that a try. Thanks again. And in any event, I just looked at the HD in the new laptop, and it's so much newer than the other one, that the HD bay is too shallow and I couldn't install it anyway. :p
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Posted: April 10 2008,22:33 QUOTE
No dice. I think I'm having issues with the file path. Whenever I try to run the command to modify lilo.conf, it says "no such file or directory", and I've tried several file path combos, using sda, sda1, hda, hda1, /dev/media, etc. So I'm missing something, somewhere...
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Posted: April 11 2008,03:53 QUOTE
Can you use the emelFM file manager to navigate to lilo.conf? Or maybe you could use the "find" application on the right-click menu?
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