Re: Best way to move to a new Debian box?
qts wrote:
If you're not using anything fancy, why not hook the disks together and use PQDI or Maxblast or similar to physically copy the disks
Proprietary disk utilities are so last millennium.
But certainly it would be highly feasible to put the hard drives in the same box and use one of the standard tools like rsync, tar, or cpio to replicate the file trees, and then adjust accordingly the /etc/fstab (filesystem table) and bootloader. I think Drew's concern, however, was making sure the new system came up with hardware support already properly configured (ethernet, video, sound, all that). Because Knoppix does such a peerless job at figuring such things out automatically, he wanted to leverage its hardware autodetection on the new hardware, instead of having to fix /etc/modules.conf and XFree86 configuration manually.
I've don't the latter in the past after similar migrations, and it's not all that difficult, but why not avoid the necessity, if there's an easy way to do so?
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com
