need to switch computers without losing data

[Tom Poe]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tom Poe wrote:
>   
>> My daughter has a PIII with FC5 on it.  Troubleshooting flowchart
>> indicates power supply died.  We're going to the UMN recycle store, and
>> get a PIII or newer.  Can someone point me to the steps needed to take
>> the hard drive out of the dead computer, and put it in the new computer,
>> and not lose the data?  I'm thinking there might be issues with just
>> switching hard drive to another computer with different hardware
>> configuration.
>> Any help appreciated,
>> Tom
>>
>>     
> If you can put in another PS, go into the BIOS and copy down the hd
> configuration. If you can not do that, then stick it in the new
> computer, boot with a rescue disk. Run fsck on the partitions on the
> drive. If it passes, you should not have any problems. If it fails,
> the BIOS is not configured correctly for the drive. (If the old BIOS
> and the new BIOS are set to auto, chances are you will not have
> problems.)
>
> If you are changing video cards, you are going to want to boot in
> level 3, and reconfigure the video, but even booting with in run
> level 5 with the wrong video is not going to cause problems. Linux
> tends to be very tolerant about hardware changes, as long as you do
> not downgrade the processor family.
>
> Mikkel
>   
Mikkel:  Thanks for the pointers.  Could I make a rescue disk on my 
computer, and use it on her computer?  I typed "rescue disk" into 
Google, and found a link to linuxdoc.org that had rescue disk info.  It 
didn't load, so I'll have to try again, later.  I got the impression 
though, that there are fairly generic rescue disks out there to download 
and use.
Tom