Re: advice on cloning system
On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:55:29 Dirk Vervoort wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > At the bottom of this post is a description of my last attempt
> > at 'cloning' my old system to my new machine. I put 'cloning' in
> > quotes because it's not really that, otherwise I could just
> > use 'dd'. The procedure left me with a system that seemed fine
> > until I tried to run kdm. The system did this without complaint
> > but gave only a blank screen on Terminal 7.
> >
> > Here is my setup:
> >
> > toshiba satellite 1135 with:
> > 30GB disk
> > debian etch
> > lots of applications
> >
> > toshiba satellite a305-s6857 with:
> > 320GB disk
> > vista
> >
> > My goal is to install etch alongside vista (dual boot) and to copy
> > as many of my applications as I can from my old disk to the new,
> > as opposed to re-installing them from the debian repository.
> >
> > Any suggestions highly appreciated. My research on this turns up
> > only examples where people are doing a true cloning via 'dd,'
> > which is clearly not applicable to my situation because I want to
> > retain vista and because of hardware differences.
> >
> > tom arnall
> > arcata
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ************************************
> > LAST ATTEMPT, WHICH FAILED TO SET UP KDM PROPERLY
> >
> > 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 disk
> > which 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 (actually, I copied directories
> > individually, skipping /dev and of course /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.
>
> I guess there is a problem with xorg.cfg Try to boot the new pc with a
> Debian live CD ( or any other which is capable to get the right native
> screen resolution)
> to compare xorg.cfg.
> or run xorg setup program. But you have to know your video adapter.
OOpps
Xorg -configure
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