How to Migrate to a new PC
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Nov 21 22:10:24 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:43 -0500, Gerry Doris wrote:
> I have a working FC6 system that is running on an old tired PC. The FC6
> install has several non Fedora applications running on it and the
> standard applications have the normal modifications. I now want to move
> to a new faster PC.
>
> I loaded FC8 on the new PC and it worked without a problem so I know the
> new PC works with FC8. I've configured the new PC hard drive with the
> same partitions as my FC6 PC. However, the drives are much bigger on
> the new PC and are named differently. For example, the old box has an
> hda and hdd but no hdb or hdc for some reason?
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hda = primary ATA controller, master drive
hdb = primary ATA controller, slave drive
hdc = secondary ATA controller, master drive
hdd = secondary ATA controller, slave drive
new computer unlikely to have ATA drives...most are now SATA, new
hardware, new designations.
F8 requires 'labels' on filesystems
F8 uses sda/sdb/sdc, etc. even for ATA controller connected drives
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>
> I really don't want to do a fresh install, load and then configure the
> applications from scratch. Ideally, I'd like to copy the FC6 system to
> the new PC and then upgrade it to FC8. I know it won't be clean but
> I've upgraded in the past and understand the process. I'd also rather
> do the upgrade to FC8 on the new PC for a number of reasons.
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probably really complicating things...better to have a clean install,
copy files that you need or even easier, create a new directory,
i.e. /home/old-system and copy contents of old hard drives there and get
what you need, when you need it
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>
> What is the best way to do this? Can I copy over the contents of the
> partitions and then try and modify the key files so it will boot? I'd
> have to change grub.conf and fstab but what else would need to be
> modified. If I can get the system to boot I'm confident I can make the
> other necessary changes .
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clean install suggestion is the best way to do this.
Craig
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