Finally got around to doing this. I took out the hard drive from the old machine and using a little plug in usb adaptor, really neat, £10 from ebuyer, and clonezilla duplicated it on the new machine.
The problem however, and this has happened before with debian, is that xorg now seems impossible to configure if it doesn't work, except by editing xorg.conf by hand, which is not my favourite pastime.
Seems it used to be possible to use dpkg and reconfigure xorg, but if its still possible I could not find a way. So I started up from a PCLinux live CD, became root, set up the screen, then copied the xorg.conf file over to the debian installation, started up from the hard drive, and it all works.
This an i3 running on an AMD64 image. I am really a bit surprised that it works. But it seems to. Famous last words. Clonezilla is very easy, and reasonably fast considering the size of the partitions.
Peter
Hi,
On 1 February 2011 04:02, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The problem however, and this has happened before with debian, is that xorg now seems impossible to configure if it doesn't work, except by editing xorg.conf by
Did it ever work if it didn't work by not editing the config file by hand?
hand, which is not my favourite pastime.
Seems it used to be possible to use dpkg and reconfigure xorg, but if its still
Does that just stick in some safe defaults? I thought modern Xorg systems can automatically pick a config that works in nearly all cases, without even having a config file.
possible I could not find a way. So I started up from a PCLinux live CD, became root, set up the screen, then copied the xorg.conf file over to the debian installation, started up from the hard drive, and it all works.
Well of course it would work ;)
This an i3 running on an AMD64 image. I am really a bit surprised that it works. But it seems to. Famous last words. Clonezilla is very easy, and
Why wouldn't i3 work using amd64? It appears to be 64bit, if you can believe Wikipedia.
Regards, Srdjan
On 1 February 2011 19:10, Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com wrote:
Why wouldn't i3 work using amd64? It appears to be 64bit, if you can believe Wikipedia.
Intel have been including amd64 instructions as standard for a while now. Core i3 not to be confused with i386, of course!
Tim.
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