On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:41:15AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Quite honestly, I think you could be underestimating the hassle involved > with a reinstall and copy-over onto a different architecture.
I've gone from Irix to Linux, from Deadrat to Deviant, with mostly no problems. Just takes a bit of time. I like to have both boxes off the public network whilst doing it, so that stuff like mail spools isn't changing underneath me as I copy data from one to t'other. > My suggestion -- if you really want to use a "new" machine -- would be > to build a complete new machine, have both online simultaneously and > transition services piecemeal. Yes, that's what I prefer to do. I still like to take both boxes offline for transferring certain services, like mail. Doing the whole lot in one go is doable but unpleasant. It *requires* good documentation of the old machine, to make sure all the right packages get installed on the new one. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001
