Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tom arnall wrote: I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan to take: Install a base system with the same network installer that I used for the source machine and without getting anything from the

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:55:29 Dirk Vervoort wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt > > at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in > > quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just > > use 'dd'. The pr

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:55:29 Dirk Vervoort wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt > > at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in > > quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just > > use 'dd'. The pr

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-27 Thread Dirk Vervoort
tom arnall wrote: At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just use 'dd'. The procedure left me with a system that seemed fine until I tried to run kdm.

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-27 07:03 +0100, tom arnall wrote: > At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt > at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in > quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just > use 'dd'. The procedure left me with a system that see

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 18:49, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:39, tom arnall wrote: > > I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to > > rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan > > to take: > > > > Install a base system with the same

advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread tom arnall
At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just use 'dd'. The procedure left me with a system that seemed fine until I tried to run kdm. The system did thi

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:39, tom arnall wrote: > I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to rebuild > all my applications. Following are the steps I plan to take: > > Install a base system with the same network installer > that I used for the source machine and wit

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread subscriptions
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:25 +0100, François Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 09:39, tom arnall a écrit : > > Copy to the new machine from old with: > > su > > mount /dev/sda3 /sD > > cp -dRvpu / /sD > > The drive on the new machine

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 09:39, tom arnall a écrit : > Copy to the new machine from old with: > su > mount /dev/sda3 /sD > cp -dRvpu / /sD > The drive on the new machine is bigger and of a > different brand. For the copy, the new drive is

advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread tom arnall
I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan to take: Install a base system with the same network installer that I used for the source machine and without getting anything from the network. Co