Kevin Philp wrote:
I would say "be very careful". It will work if the following are true:
1. All the drivers loaded on computer A are the same as required for
computer B - do they have the same CPU/motherboard chipset/graphics card
2. Your partitions are the same and match up in FSTAB - be
particularly careful if your FSTAB uses UUID notation.
3. You will need to reinstall grub into the MBR anyway.
I would be pleased to hear others peoples comments because this would
make my backup procedure easier - but unless the computers are the
same/very similar I am not confident its a sensible approach.
Kevin.
Recently I've upgraded my workstation. I changed motherboard and went
from AMD to Intel. Hard drive stayed the same and Debian booted without
problem. But since I had problems with this installation before I wanted
to reinstall and lazy as I am, I just copied the Debian installation
from my home computer with different motherboard, same CPU and different
graphics card (nVidia -> ATi) and completely different partition
structure. I copied the files (using cp not dd) to a second
(new/additional) hard drive and this caused me some problems with Grub
trying to boot from the old hard drive. After some mild tweaking (Grub
and X) I ended up with fully configured working Debian installation.
Some time ago I made something similar on my laptop. I copied files to
external disk, deleted an rearranged partitions and copied the files
back. Setup Grub and boot without problem.
Regards,
Mitja
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