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<gnucode>damo22: that is true...however the last time I tried that....I couldn't get my T400 to boot.

<gnucode>It probably does work, but finding the right grub incantation is a little tricky.

<damo22>yea, i tried writing a grub module to make it easier

<gnucode>damo22: I saw that.

<damo22>but the installed disk should come with grub.cfg

<damo22>it may need a slight tweak for hd0 / sd0 or somehting

<damo22>but otherwise should boot

<damo22>if you have a t400, i suggest using that, its way more powerful than a t60

<gnucode>I'll give it a try again.

<damo22>i suggest transplanting a disk from a working hurd

<gnucode>damo22: hahaha....My T43 is a working disk...but it is not SATA. It's whatever was before SATA...PATA ?

<damo22>do you have a sata disk somewhere?

<damo22>you could buy a $5 usb caddy for it and use dd to copy the contents of your IDE disk to the SATA one over USB

<damo22>then you wouldnt need to do a full reinstall

<gnucode>damo22: hmmmm.

<gnucode>so I would power on my Hurd running on the T43.

<gnucode>at the same time...I would boot up an GNU/Linux installer with an ssh server built in and running...

<gnucode>Then on the GNU/Linux installer I would ssh into the T43, and run a dd command...

<gnucode>does that sound right?

<damo22>gnucode: i mean, hurd has usb driver you could plug in the second disk via usb and dd the running hurd disk onto the usb -> sata disk

<damo22>all running on hurd

<damo22>then when the transfer is complete, take the sata disk out of the caddy and insert it into the blank t400

<damo22>this would work so long as the sata disk has at least as much capacity as the ide disk

<gnucode>damo22: oh...I didn't know that was working already...well I guess I was just reading about rumpusbdisk...silly me

<gnucode>damo22: my T43 has 1.5 GB of ram...does rumpusbdisk use a lot of memory?

<damo22>gnucode: worst case you can boot off a GNU/Linux live usb stick and do the copy in linux instead

<damo22>the main question is if you have a sata disk that fits in the t400

<damo22>gnucode: the only thing you might need to buy is one of these https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ao-pEVeYL.jpg

<damo22>i find it terribly useful for developing hurd too

<damo22>because you can run qemu using the usb device and also plug the same disk into a real pc

<damo22>so you can easily test from qemu -> real hw the same image

<damo22>you dont need the installer all the time

<gnucode>damo22: I can find a SATA SSD that fits in the T400. What is that image? A usb caddy?

<damo22>have a look

<gnucode>I'm looking at the image. I'll see if I can purchase whatever that thing is somewhere.

<damo22>just search up "usb to sata dongle" in duckduckgo images

<gnucode>that's super cheap.

<damo22>the startech one is good quality

<damo22>might be a bit more than the cheapest one

<gnucode>ok. but good quality is worth it.

<damo22>but ive had some problems with cheapo usb sata dongles dropping out or reconnecting

<damo22>the startech one is pretty solid

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