[SATLUG] New boxen

[Mark McCoy]

When I upgrade the OS/hardware, I usually put the disk in the new box,
mount it up (as /mnt/oldhome or something), and:

# rsync -avP /mnt/oldhome/<username>/  /home/<username>/oldhome/

then move the files from ~/oldhome/ as needed.  I don't usually copy
them directly, since I don't want to overwrite any configs from my
upgraded OS (desktop configs, etc...).

Mark

On 10/2/06, Alex Bartonek <bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com> wrote:
> there are probably other answers.. but what I've done
> is just physically move the other hd into the new box
> and copied it all over.
>
> -Alex
>
> --- augie <agrayfox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Luggers,
> > Got a question, you guys might be able to provide
> > some answers for.
> > I've been running Simply Mepis on an older case and
> > (noisy) hardware (AMD
> > Athlon 1.1) and have aquired an HP with a 2.1G cpu
> > and bigger HD and no
> > noise.
> > My question is how do I move my /home from the old
> > boxen to the new one?
> > I've installed the OS on the new one. Do I just hook
> > up the old hd to the new
> > one as slave and dd the /home partition using a live
> > cd? If anybody can
> > provide the correct (in detail) processes, I'd be
> > forever indebted.
> > --
> >       augie
> >


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