Re: advice on cloning system
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 18:49, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:39, tom arnall wrote:
> > I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to
> > rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan
> > to take:
> >
> > Install a base system with the same network installer
> > that I used for the source machine and without getting
> > anything from the network.
> >
> > Copy to the new machine from old with:
> >
> > su
> > mount /dev/sda3 /sD
> > cp -dRvpu / /sD
> >
> > The drive on the new machine is bigger and of a
> > different brand. For the copy, the new drive is
> > attached to the old machine as a usb drive.
> >
> > am i missing anything?
>
> Sometimes persistent network card info gets stored in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. Your copy
> operation will copy the MAC-address-indexed entry for a device
> on the old system, and when the new system boots up, it will
> think that the old device name is taken, and will assign a new
> device name for its network card.
>
> So, you might discover that the network interface that was
> eth0 when you did the base install will suddenly become eth1
> when you boot the copied system.
>
> The work-around, of course, is to remove the
> about-to-be-wrong entry from that file after doing the copy.
what about kdm? can i really just copy it over from my old disk?
>
> -- A.
> --
> Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net
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