Re: [aclug-L] Upgrading to SCSI from IDE

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are at least three ways to accomplish this:
1. Many of the newer motherboards allow you to select the 'sniffer
   boot' sequence (floppy,scsi,c,cdrom usual choices) from bios setup.
2. Setup LILO on the MBR of the first hard drive in the 'sniffer 
   boot' sequence to prompt and boot either hard drive.
3. Leave the IDE drive alone and setup the scsi to boot from floppy.

The other drive will mount on the booted system, allowing access to all
drives.

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Carl B. Davis wrote:

> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> I presently have a RedHat Linux 5.2 server for my small office.  It is
> running a smallish ide drive.  I have acquired a much larger SCSI drive
> and also RH 6.0 copy from cheapbytes.  My first thought was that I would
> physically swap those drives out, install the adaptec SCSI card and
> reinstall linux on the SCSI drive.  I would prefer, however, to leave
> both drives in the machine at the same time.  I wasn't sure if I could
> dual boot between these drives and the different versions of linux, and
> have them installed in the same machine.  If I can, I want to ease into
> my RH 6, SCSI drive so I don't crater my whole operation.  I also am not
> anxious to devote a large block of time, and would rather be able to
> gradually work on it as time allows.  Any advice or suggestions will be
> appreciated. 
> 
> 
> Carl
>