Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

[Mike]

Dan Thurman <dant <at> cdkkt.com> writes:

> 
> 
> What happened was that I spent a lot of time configuring
> computer "A", and rsync'd the root filesystem onto disk
> at computer "B".  I then rsync'd from hard disk to computer
> "C" and everything was fine except that the hardware is
> clearly different.

I am not sure that copying the root partition from one machine to another
is a good way to install Linux.

Was there some special reason not to use one of the normal install methods
from the DVD or Live CD?