Catatonic hard drive

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:19:34PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> - How does one tell the hard drive not to sleep, in case it's that?

$ hdparm -S 0 /dev/hdXX

> - To minimize downtime, I would like to install SuSE 9.2 and all my
> other software on the new hard drive in a second computer,  and move
> it over and tweak when it's ready.  The main obstacles I see to doing
> this is moving from apache1.3 to apache2

If you don't want to deal with upgrading and you're not stuck on SuSE,
Debian sarge/sid allows you to choose between 1.3 or 2.

-David