Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

[Phil Meyer]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Phil Meyer wrote:
>>  
>>> My job requires me to do this quite often.
>>>
>>> Others have talked about backup/restore, but the easiest way is to put
>>> the old drive into the new system.
>>>
>>> On F9
>>>
>>> In the new system with old drive, or on the old system before moving 
>>> the
>>> drive, boot into rescue mode:
>>>
>>> at the prompt:
>>>
>>> rm /mnt/sysimage/etc/udev/rules.d/*persistant*
>>> /mnt/sysimage/etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>>
>>> exit
>>>
>>>
>>> That will eliminate MOST of the hardware configurations, and they will
>>> be rediscovered.
>>>
>>> You may or may not need to run system-config-display after booting from
>>> the drive.  F9 versions of the X server do not 'need' 
>>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>> to run, but may need it to run properly.
>>>
>>> That is a 10 minute exercise vs the 3-8 hours for the backup/restore
>>> method.
>>>
>>> Having said that, there may be valid reasons to spend the time, and
>>> backups are ALWAYS a good thing.  YMWV
>>>
>>> Good Luck!
>>>
>>>     
>> Don't forget about rebuilding the initrd if the driver for your hard
>> drive controller changes. (I had this happen with PATA controllers.)
>>
>> Mikkel
>>   
> here is what I use -- also from rescue -- F9 only -- when I know the 
> controller may be different -- probably overkill:
>
> after chroot to /mnt/sysimage
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> kernel=`ls /boot/vmli* | awk -F\- '{printf("%s-%s\n", $2,$3)}'`
> initrd="/boot/initrd-${kernel}.img"
> rm $initrd
> /sbin/mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=ahci --preload=libata 
> --preload=jbd --preload=ohci-hcd --preload=uhci-hcd 
> --preload=scsi_wait_scan --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod 
> --preload=sd_mod --preload=pata_amd --preload=ata_generic 
> --preload=pata_cs5536 --preload=pata_acpi $initrd $kernel
> #
>

well, I should mention that this only works with one kernel, should be:

kernel=`ls /boot/vmli* | tail -1 | awk -F\- '{printf("%s-%s\n", $2,$3)}'`

to be generic