Re: moving to a new laptop
The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost (I
think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an
image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades
all the time. I even moves the Partition table. So uprading
from a 6GB HDD to a 12GB HDD, you'd end up with a 6GB
partition on the new drive. Then you can go in and add more
partitions with the extra space or expand the one partition,
or whatever.
I don't know what other products like this that are avaiable,
or what cost might be associated with it, but maybe there's
something like it in Debian or for Linux in general.
Thusly Thwacked By Peter Cordes:
> 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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> Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)
>
> "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
> Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
> my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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