Re: Migrate an old debian to a new machine

[Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com>]

On 12/23/2017 07:21 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

> Le 23/12/2017 à 12:10, Georgi Naplatanov a écrit :
> >   - connect new disk to old computer and boot from your old disk
> >   - partition your new disk with your favorite program. I like cgdisk
> > from gdisk package
>
> gdisk and cgdisk handle only GPT. For DOS/MBR, you'll need another 
> program such as fdisk or (g)parted.

How about partitioning a new disk using the installer itself - would 
that work?