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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 9:54 am, Mike Chidley wrote:
I`ll shortly be receiving a new computer :-)..... my question is how best to move my system from my old computer to my new computer as I have never done this before.
If you decide not to rip the hard drive from the old machine, it's not that hard to install Linux on a new system with the configuration from an existing system. Then you'll also have a spare system that can be used as a firewall or router etc. A pair of network cards and a hub and you're set. If you do this first, it's even easier to make an identical copy of your existing config. One tar.gz tarball, one ftp session, one tar -xzf and you could be done! :-)) Make a backup of the home directory as a tarball - you can then decompress the entire home directory and restore all your email accounts, bookmarks, GnuPG key rings, etc. (Just make sure you clear the disc cache in Mozilla / Galeon and use kio-http-cleaner --clean-all for Konqueror - you don't need a backup of your internet cache.) If you don't have anywhere to store the tarball (like a CD or other device), you could use webspace from your ISP perhaps. You could put a few config files from /etc in the tarball too, perhaps /etc/httpd/conf/ , /etc/ppp , just copy them to your home directory and copy them back afterwards. As long as you are installing the same distro version on the new machine, it should be fine. Make a note of which packages you really want and make sure they are in the package selection to save time after the install.
I have two options as I see it..... 1. Move the 20gig HD to the new computer and run it as a slave to the new drive.
The vast majority of the data on that drive will not need to be copied to the new system. It seems a waste of your existing system to rip the hard drive out of it when you could simply copy the essential data across to a new install. Plus you'll have to re-configure the existing system.
2. Repartition the 40gig HD and do a clean install, but then i`ll have to set everything up again.
RedHat has a KickStart configurator that can make this quite easy - it'll store the main parts of the configuration on just a floppy or two.
I would really like to do option 1, but how do a go about changing the config. i.e for the new hardware....I really haven`t got a clue how to do it.
Potentially, the hardest thing to do could be to get X to work with your new system, graphics card etc. especially if you've forked out for a TFT panel. That's why I'd say it's best to leave that to the RedHat installer and simply copy the essential data only. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE996ivk7DVr6iX/QIRAoxBAKCOHppklwgYroTvmJbp0S3+72b4+gCgkmkT IYrhU6Sh2BR/6Rw+bKu604s= =AdHm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.