Re: moving to a new laptop
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:03:17PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question:
> Can I simply "move" all the software to the new one? (Well, except for
> the XConfig and other hardware stuff like sound, 3D, etc...)
> My biggest concern is that I have to install all the packages again that
> are on my laptop rigth now. What about programs that I compiled myself -
> do I have to compile them again?
You can move whole filesystems with dump | netcat, netcat -l | restore.
If you want to just move a subdir, use GNU partimage, or use tar |
netcat.
100baseT is your friend :)
> I have a lot of packages from woody and sid and I really don't feel like
> getting them again (I only have potato stuff on CD) - I really want to
> avoid that, especially because it took me a long time to configure
> everything.
Everything in /usr except /usr/local should be restorable give the
info in /var.
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