Windows Rant

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/07/10 00:06, Rashkae wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>    
>> You just swapped in another hard drive and "Ubuntu worked just fine" -
>> and without having to make any alterations to fstab (as a for-instance)?
>>
>> XP won't even let you change the colour of your underwear without
>> wanting to be "authenticated" again. But stating what you did about
>> Ubuntu, me thinks is kinda going a tad overboard :-) .
>>
>> I must say that this was the case some time ago, but no longer. All to
>> do with UUID I think. But then I am more wrong than right... :-( .
>>
>>
>>      
> Apples and Oranges.  The OP was talking about moving 1 hard drive to a
> different machine, wich works just fine in Ubuntu as is.  Your talking
> about changing the harddrive in the same machine, which does require
> updating fstab.


Ummm, sorry, but aren't you just getting just a bit off the mark here?

What is the difference of moving an HD from one Ubuntu running computer 
to another Ubuntu running computer - where it will be an unrecognised 
device - to putting in a new HD on "the same machine" where it will be 
an unrecognised device?

What am I missing here? And I do admit that it is my bed time.

BC

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