Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 04:58:48 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:55 -0600, linuxguy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> > Cloning the hard drive is possible. However, there is no defined upgrade
> > path from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system. Of course, you can continue to
> > run a 32 bit Fedora build on your 64 bit CPU.
>
> My .i386 kernel will continue to run on the dual AMD 64 processor ? I
> knew it would run a 32 bit version of Windows, but I thought it would
> need a different version of the Linux kernel. Am I wrong ?
You can run 32-bit if you want. It should work fine.
> > You won't get the advantages
> > of running 64 bit code, but a 32 bit Fedora will boot just fine on a 64 bit
> > CPU.
>
> OK, guess that answers that.
>
> > As far as how to get data off your old laptop drive, I heard that there's a
> > great gadget out there called "Google", that can help you find this stuff
> > out right away, without waiting for someone on a mailing list to help you.
> > About 30 seconds of Googling turned up the following article, which tells
> > you everything you need to do:
> >
> > http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5160538.html
>
> Sorry, no cigar. My old hard drive is 80 GB and it has Windows XP on
> the first partition. The new hard drive is 250 GB and has Vista with
> all the drivers for the new hardware. I need to run the new hard drive.
>
> I am already using the hard drive adapter mentioned in that article.
> My laptop quit a couple weeks ago. I'm running the laptop hard drive
> in an old (slow) Dell desktop while I wait for the new laptop to
> arrive.
This is what I do whenever I change machines: back up all user data
(/home), make a list of all installed rpms (rpm -qa), plus key stuff
like /etc/fstab, /etc/yum.repo.d (in fact all of /etc is probably a good
idea), then install a fresh system on the new machine. You'll be amazed
at how much stuff you end up not reinstalling :-)
poc
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