On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:03:17PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi > > I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question: > Can I simply "move" all the software to the new one? (Well, except for > the XConfig and other hardware stuff like sound, 3D, etc...) > My biggest concern is that I have to install all the packages again that > are on my laptop rigth now. What about programs that I compiled myself - > do I have to compile them again?
You can move whole filesystems with dump | netcat, netcat -l | restore. If you want to just move a subdir, use GNU partimage, or use tar | netcat. 100baseT is your friend :) > I have a lot of packages from woody and sid and I really don't feel like > getting them again (I only have potato stuff on CD) - I really want to > avoid that, especially because it took me a long time to configure > everything. Everything in /usr except /usr/local should be restorable give the info in /var. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
