Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around this issue. Oh right, there's this as well. If you use LVM (can't think of any reason not to), then it's a non-issue since your volumes are all labelled. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:52:51AM -0400, Ryan Manikowski wrote: On 5/10/2010 11:37 AM, Vincze Janos Istvan wrote: Hi list, My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu, memory, stb.). Have anybody a

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around this issue. There was a thread on this recently, and I think it was said that even UUID's can change with

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around this issue. There was a thread on this recently, and I

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:00 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: I am sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong, so if noone does so I have probably remembered correctly. I don't remember a thread on debian-user about UUIDs changing with changing

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:00 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: I am sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong, so if noone does so I have probably remembered correctly. I don't

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:55 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: Thanks, Tom - I may be getting confused with that. No, Lisi, you are right. Here is the thread: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-10 Thread Vincze Janos Istvan
Hi list, My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu, memory, stb.). Have anybody a good idea how to replace the old computer without reinstall the whole system? I have installed and configured: - The most important is ASTERISK PBX - Apache2 web server - Samba -

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-10 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 5/10/2010 11:37 AM, Vincze Janos Istvan wrote: Hi list, My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu, memory, stb.). Have anybody a good idea how to replace the old computer without reinstall the whole system? I have installed and configured: - The most

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu, memory, stb.). Have anybody a good idea how to replace the old computer without reinstall the whole system? Yup: use your old disk in the new machine (or make a clone if you want to use a new disk). In 99% of the cases,

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-10 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 May 2010 17:37:13 +0200, Vincze Janos Istvan wrote: My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu, memory, stb.). Have anybody a good idea how to replace the old computer without reinstall the whole system? I have installed and configured: - The most

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:52:51AM -0400, Ryan Manikowski wrote: On 5/10/2010 11:37 AM, Vincze Janos Istvan wrote: Hi list, My debian server will soon get a complete new hardware (motherboard, cpu, memory, stb.). Have anybody a good idea how to replace the old computer without