Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-10 Thread Vanda Vodkamilkevich
I've retried with the 'P' option and now I get it: when using this option the package selection page doesn't show it as 'selected' (no version or action seen in the 'New' column') but if you click 'next' it works! I don't know how to send a screenshot but I hope that you get what I mean. When I m

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-10 Thread Jon Turney
On 09/02/2022 18:05, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 04:12:28PM +0100, Vanda Vodkamilkevich wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 13:12 AM marco.atzeri wrote: I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local regi

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-09 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 04:12:28PM +0100, Vanda Vodkamilkevich wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 13:12 AM marco.atzeri wrote: > > >> I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar > >> fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local registry... > >> Make a basic install

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-09 Thread Vanda Vodkamilkevich
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 13:12 AM marco.atzeri wrote: >> I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar >> fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local registry... >> Make a basic installation on the new system, then sync the rest. >> An even cleaner way might be to

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-04 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2022-02-04 03:26, Russell VT wrote: This is "a religious" question, as there are many different "sworn" ways to do it. The "old reliable" method, if you have both filesystems available... at least off the top of my head... cd / ; tar -cvf - / | (cd /path/to/other/disk ; tar -xvfp -)

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-04 Thread marco atzeri
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:52 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar > fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local registry... > Make a basic installation on the new system, then sync the rest. > An even cleaner way might be to clone

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 04.02.2022 um 11:26 schrieb Russell VT: This is "a religious" question, as there are many different "sworn" ways to do it. The "old reliable" method, if you have both filesystems available... at least off the top of my head... cd / ; tar -cvf - / | (cd /path/to/other/disk ; tar -xvfp -)

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-04 Thread Russell VT
This is "a religious" question, as there are many different "sworn" ways to do it. The "old reliable" method, if you have both filesystems available... at least off the top of my head... cd / ; tar -cvf - / | (cd /path/to/other/disk ; tar -xvfp -) There are also many other solutions using thing

Switch to a new PC

2022-02-04 Thread Vanda Vodkamilkevich
Hi guys, Probably a known issue (I remember on this list some trick using the installed.db file) but I want to backup my whole cygwin tree (on a network drive) before switching PC and without losing anything... What is the best method / tool? (currently trying with FreeFileSync but it is excluding