advice on cloning system

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

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?

thanks,

tom arnall
arcata