On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Claudius Hubig <debian_1...@chubig.net> wrote:
> Hello Benimaur,
>
> Benimaur Gao <benim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK.
>> 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it.
>> 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine
>> by "rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*}
>
> If you simply want to copy your old system onto the new machine, why
> do you need the netinstall images? It might lack some proper hardware
> detection and is meant for other uses (though it can usually also
> work as you intend it to do).yeah, I just want a working linux environment... Where can I get a more comprehensive livecd? and what's the proper way to create a bootable usb if without dd? I know zcat works for *.img, I want to know the method to play with iso. > > I’d suggest using either some of the many live CDs with good hardware > detection or the i386 netinstall which appears to work fine to you. > It should be able to chroot into your system just as well (assuming > it’s an i386 system). > > If you, for some reason, decide to stick with the amd64 netinstall > CD, I suggest you try the various boot parameters to disable specific > options/enable hardware quirks. > > Best regards, > > Claudius > -- > A board is the planck unit of boredom. > http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cahamyh2bb+iqrhmmxprmequwupo3ttfdtm2dncv2t-pz+9p...@mail.gmail.com
