Sorry, should have said that the old machine is socket 754 with a 64 bit amd install, and the new one is an i3.
Hi, can I pick your brains on this one? That time has come round again and I have to move someone to a new machine. What is the best way of doing it?
Last time, I did a new install on the new machine, then moved the contents of the /home partition by copying, tracked down all the extra bits and bobs that we have installed, and got them again. It was quite a bit of work.
I am wondering if it is possible to just move the hard drive subject to then reconfiguring the distribution? Or is it possible to copy over the partitions to the new hard drive, then....?
Any suggestions gratefully received. I have also read about using netcat, is this possible or sensible?
Peter
Hi, can I pick your brains on this one? That time has come round again and I have to move someone to a new machine. What is the best way of doing it?
Any suggestions gratefully received.
I don't know about the "best" way, but a while back I swapped out the motherboard/cpu/ram/graphics card underneath my then install of Debian Lenny. As I recall, the only the only thing I had to manually configure were the graphics drivers, because I had to move from the open source Radeon drivers over to the proprietary Nvidia binaries. As soon as I did that X booted again and all was hunkidory.
That said, I find a periodic reinstall of the OS cleans out the cobwebs so you might find this a good excuse to do that anyway ...
Peter.
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