On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:21 AM Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 09:02:06 -0600 > Richard Shaw wrote: > > > 2. Perform a clean install to it > > You don't necessarily need a clean install. You can > partition and format the new ssd then just rsync > everything to it and use grub2-install to make > it bootable and edit all the grub.conf, grub env > files, fstabs, etc to change the UUID to the new > UUID strings. > > Don't know if you'd consider that a better option > or not :-). > I kinda wanted to see how the installer setup the new btrfs subvolumes but guess I could do it manually :) Also, I wanted to try going without dedicated swap (easy enough not to copy over) with swap on zram and standard OOM setup. > It is the way I always do installs by first installing > to a virtual machine then using guestmount and rsync > to get the install off the virtual machine and onto the > partition I'm installing (then I use the configfile > option from a stand alone grub partition which is the > only one that actually boots). > Interesting method! Thanks, Richard
_______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
