[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Tim Kent]

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Jason,

You have a few options for this one.  You could use a commercial
product such as Norton Ghost to do the trick, but that's not really
needed.  I would simply mount your old drive into the Celeron and boot
from the rescue Debian disk. (or your working Debian HDD)

Then you could simply do something like:

# cd /mnt/oldusr
# find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newusr

You would of course have to repeat this step for each partition.

Regards
Tim

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From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of
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Sent: Monday, 6 January 2003 8:14 AM
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Subject: [H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade


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Hi all,

I have a Debian woody machine, Pentium 200 and a 2GB hard drive that is
currently working well but it is a little slow and quickly running out of
disk space.  I have just aquired a Celeron 1.7GHz machine with a 40Gb drive
and I want to transfer everything on to this machine.  Is it possible to
somehow copy all my files and configs to this new machine without actually
installing Debian again?  I originally installed slink on the old machine
from CD and have just been upgrading over time.  I don't really want to go
through the process of installing from CD and reconfiguring everything
again.  Any tips would be great!

Thanks,

Jason




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