Moving HD from boxen A to boxen B

[M. Lewis]

Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 01:29 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
>>1) is it better to tell Kudzu to forget the old configurations and use 
>>the new configurations? I would like a path to get back to the old 
>>machine should the move to the new machine prove to be too much of a 
>>challenge for him.
> 
> 
> I have found Kudzu to reliably detect and configure new/changed
> hardware, let it do its thing. The only problem normally is the network
> configuration (if you do not use DHCP). Make note of the config. and let
> your friend re-enter that once the machine is up.
> 
> If you need a path to get back: make a tar of the /etc directory
> tar cvzf /root/oldetc.tar.gz /etc
> 
>  so you can restore the whole tree in case of problems:
> cd /
> tar xvzf /root/oldetc.tar.gz
> 
> 
>>2) assuming X does not work due to the new video card, how is the best 
>>way to overcome this?
>>
> 
> I would guess that kudzu handles this well..
> 
>>3) anything else that I might be overlooking ?
>>
> 
> Don't do any of the above if you do not have a backup of anything
> important on the machine. Things can go wrong really badly....
> 
>>Thanks,
>>Mike
> 
> regards,
> Louis
> 

Thanks Louis. Points well taken. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,
Mike

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