[mdlug] seek some suggestions for installing linux

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 08:40 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:49:35PM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> > If your previous installation is using LVM, then do not reinstall on the
>>> > new drive.  Just connect the new drive, add it as a pv to your vg, do a
>>> > pvmove to the new drive, refresh the boot loaded.  Then disconnect the
>>> > old drive.
>>> Yay!  Someone who doesn't have a knee-jerk reaction to LVM and
>>> actually knows how to use it!  This is a good example of a benefit of
>>> using LVM.
>>> Although I suspect you meant 'boot loader' and not 'boot loaded'.
>>> Although, who knows, maybe it'd help to get your computer drunk first?
>>
>> Beer & hackers, can they be separated?
>
> It takes a powerful centrifuge and a very, very special filter.

And it'd still have a funny taste, I suspect.

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