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 network installer > > that I used for the source machine and without getting > > anything from the network. > > > > 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 > > attached to the old machine as a usb drive. > > > > am i missing anything? > > Sometimes persistent network card info gets stored in > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. Your copy > operation will copy the MAC-address-indexed entry for a device > on the old system, and when the new system boots up, it will > think that the old device name is taken, and will assign a new > device name for its network card. > > So, you might discover that the network interface that was > eth0 when you did the base install will suddenly become eth1 > when you boot the copied system. > > The work-around, of course, is to remove the > about-to-be-wrong entry from that file after doing the copy.
what about kdm? can i really just copy it over from my old disk? > > -- A. > -- > Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
