Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rick Stevens wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Phil Meyer wrote: >>> >>> after chroot to /mnt/sysimage >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> >>> kernel=`ls /boot/vmli* | awk -F\- '{printf("%s-%s\n", $2,$3)}'` >>> initrd="/boot/initrd-${kernel}.img" >>> rm $initrd >>> /sbin/mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preloa

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Rick Stevens
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Don't forget about rebuilding the initrd if the driver for your hard drive controller changes. (I had this happen with PATA controllers.) Mikkel here is what I use -- also from rescue -- F9 only -- when I know the cont

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Phil Meyer wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Don't forget about rebuilding the initrd if the driver for your hard >> drive controller changes. (I had this happen with PATA controllers.) >> >> Mikkel >> > here is what I use -- also from rescue -- F9 only -- when I know the > controller may b

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: My job requires me to do this quite often. Others have talked about backup/restore, but the easiest way is to put the old drive into the new system. On F9 In the new system with old drive, or on the old system before moving th

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: My job requires me to do this quite often. Others have talked about backup/restore, but the easiest way is to put the old drive into the new system. On F9 In the new system with old drive, or on the old system before moving the drive, boot into

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Phil Meyer wrote: > > My job requires me to do this quite often. > > Others have talked about backup/restore, but the easiest way is to put > the old drive into the new system. > > On F9 > > In the new system with old drive, or on the old system before moving the > drive, boot into rescue mode:

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
linuxguy wrote: My laptop has quit. I am getting a new one. My old laptop has a 32 bit Intel processor. My new laptop has a dual 64 bit AMD processor, as well as different peripherals. What is the easiest way to move my current installation to the new machine ? Is there a way to clone the

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:55 -0600, linuxguy wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > Cloning the hard drive is possible. However, there is no defined upgrade > > path from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system. Of course, you can continue > > to > > run a 32 bit Fed

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-17 Thread linuxguy
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Cloning the hard drive is possible. However, there is no defined upgrade > path from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system. Of course, you can continue to > run a 32 bit Fedora build on your 64 bit CPU. My .i386 kernel will continue to r

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
linuxguy writes: My laptop has quit. I am getting a new one. My old laptop has a 32 bit Intel processor. My new laptop has a dual 64 bit AMD processor, as well as different peripherals. What is the easiest way to move my current installation to the new machine ? Is there a way to clone t

Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-17 Thread linuxguy
My laptop has quit. I am getting a new one. My old laptop has a 32 bit Intel processor. My new laptop has a dual 64 bit AMD processor, as well as different peripherals. What is the easiest way to move my current installation to the new machine ? Is there a way to clone the current hard driv