poc...@homemail.com wrote: >"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com> wrote: >> >> As someone else has put it elsewhere in the thread: new laptop means >> new drivers, potentially moving from legacy MBR to UEFI ... easier in >> many ways to put a clean install of Debian on from new media to start >> with (also wiping out whatever was there before if it came preinstalled >> with Windows or whatever). > >None to little of that is relevant. The "drivers" are part of the kernel, it is >not 1995 anymore. >I go from MBR to GPT to UEFI all the time. > >Is it nice to think that debian still has the microsoft mindset? > >A "clean" install is not really required on a modern linux system. >Linux is not microsoft windows.
No, it's not. But there are several ways to go here. For a non-techinical user it's likely to be easier for them to understand a new installation and copying data. You or I might move data around systems with confidence, but not everybody is in the same boat. >When people state the above it really just shows they don't understand Linux. There's no need to be rude here. :-( >> > > I'm fairly sure this was brought up just about at the end of last month. >> > >> > It depends upon if you created a partition table, partitions and >> > filesystems >on the drive. >> > >> > I create the drive layout on the drive then rsync the old drive to the new >> > drive. >> > Then I fixup the PARTUUID in the /etc/fstab and boot loader. >> > If I am using Archlinux or my own custom build os I have a blank /etc/fstab >and /etc/hosts >> > >> There's more than one way to do it: if you absolutely know what partition >> sizes you want, maybe - LVM and one partition is a fairly sensible starting >> point because partitions will grow and shrink, for example. > >Nonsense, using/building distributions and running Linux since 1995, partitions >don't grow and shrink. But filesystems and their storage needs may, however. <irrelevant stuff snipped> -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...
