moving fedora to a new system

[Kenneth Porter]

On Friday, February 24, 2006 4:25 PM -0500 Jaime Davila 
<jdavila at hampshire.edu> wrote:

> I've been using fedora for a while in my personal laptop. I am about to
> get a new laptop, and would like to end up with a system as close to the
> one I have as possible in terms of the packages that are installed in it.
> Everything I have installed so far I have installed via yum. Is there a
> way of making yum output what it knows is installed (in my current
> system), and then feed that to yum in my new system?

"rpm -qa | sort" lists all installed packages and their version/release. I 
pipe through sort as the raw rpm output is in arbitrary order.

You could use dump to back up the old laptop and then restore it into place 
on the new one, booting from a rescue CD. First use a minimal installation 
on the new laptop to get the partitions the way you want them.