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Precautions to take when installing Ubuntu on a laptop and moving the HDD to a headless server?

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I have no monitor and I'm planning to do this:

Install Ubuntu server on laptop.

Move HDD to headless server (hoping it will work).

Is there anything I should worry about?

I imagine that I need to check /etc/fstab to make sure that the right HDD is mounted on startup because on the laptop it might have a different name than on the server.

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answered 3 Years ago ouschee · Accepted Answer

Also, I think the new network card will get a different interface name, so it would be a good idea to prepare for that. For example add auto eth1 and iface eth1 inet dhcp to /etc/netork/interfaces, if you have an eth0 named interface in your notebook, and you want your headless server to get an IP via DHCP.