Hi, On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 01:49:12AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > If you simply clone the system from one hardware system to another, are you > confident that it will work?
You clearly aren't, but I think Hans should be, yes. Worst cxase is that Hans ends up with something that doesn't boot, but Hans would still have the thing that boots, so this is pretty low risk. > I expect that the two different hardware systems would require separate sets > of drivers and configurations for those drivers. Sure. But There is only one NVMe driver in Linux and it will be baked in to any recent kernel. Hans would have had top go out of their way to make a custom kernel that won't work. The other potential stumbling block is that sometimes a system's legacy BIOS can't boot off of NVMe while its UEFI can. That's entirely outside the world of Linux though. > Also, depending on the operating system and packages versions, you could end > up with a frankenstein system. There is no mention in Hans's email of different versions of Debian being involved here. > Will the two primary drives be the same, in terms of total hard drive > capacity, partition sizes and formatted/usable capacities? > > Will the UEFI partitions on each system, be compatible? None of that matters. If it boots now, it will boot afterwards as long as the machine supports booting off of NVMe and the kernel has the drivers. > I believe (and, I am no expert, and, this list will have much more > knowledgeable people than me, available) that it would be simpler, to > install the latest versions and packages of whatever you have/had on your > older system, on your new system, and, then create your partitions, and copy > data to corresponding partitions. Huge waste of time I'm afraid. > What you are intending to do, reminds me of a movie that I once watched, > named Pet Semetary (sic). Changing a storage drive reminds you of a horror movie? Okay, it may be time to put the Internet away… Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
