Many thanks to all, and especially Nigel who has clearly described what is
now Plan A.
I didn't even know about Clonezilla until Lennart mentioned it yesterday.
Then I studied up and it quickly rose to the method of choice, and your
detailed instructions have made it dead simple. Up to now I had m
I also run multi boot Windows 10 and KUbuntu on my main two systems. Am
currently on KUbuntu 20.04 LTS. Here is my way of doing what you want to
do.
I have used Clonezilla for years. I boot it from a USB stick. I use it to
make regular disk and partition backups as well as migrate and build new
sy
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 01:35:38AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> This topic is one I hope will be on many peoples' minds as they encounter
> frustration (and in some cases a dead end) moving their Windows 10 systems
> to Windows 11. This may soon become the source of a multi
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:15 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> On the other hand, Canonical is the owner of Snap and pushes it hard.
> So on a Ubuntu system you may end up needing to use Snap.
>
>
I manage to have working Ubuntu desktops without snapd, but it's a bit of a
fight initially. I
On 2022-04-28 17:29, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Kevin Cozens via talk
| I have just used dd run under Linux when I have cloned drives in the past.
| YMMV.
Two problems I can imagine:
- the two disks will have partitions with identical UUIDs.
I was thinking the purpose of the
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 5:30 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> I generally find that disk sectors are 4k these days but 512 bytes on
> a USB disk. I don't know what an NVMe SSD presents as its
> blocksize. It might well be that Evan's USB thingee preserves the
> blocksize of the
On 4/28/22 01:35, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
...
Turns out I was wrong. So very, very wrong. And now I can't wait to go
back to my Linux desktop,
...
Another topic for meeting? Because I was thinking about moving to
Windows (and Ubuntu in WSL), and dump Linux altogether. I finally
co
| From: Kevin Cozens via talk
| I have just used dd run under Linux when I have cloned drives in the past.
| YMMV.
Two problems I can imagine:
- the two disks will have partitions with identical UUIDs. This isn't
a good idea. The symptoms might be subtle.
- if the geometry is different you
On 2022-04-28 01:35, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
1. My motherboard takes a single M.2 SSD for my one and only drive. I have
a larger M.2 card that I'd like to replace it with, cloning my existing
setup to the new drive
[snip]
Can anyone recommend a good tool for doing the disk
| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk
| Now for the personal angle.
| Some ago I installed Windows on a desktop I use a lot. It replaced Linux
| because that was incapable of running the one game I like playing. I even
| gave a talk to GTALUG about that move, about Windows Subsystem for Linux
| and t
Hi all.
This topic is one I hope will be on many peoples' minds as they encounter
frustration (and in some cases a dead end) moving their Windows 10 systems
to Windows 11. This may soon become the source of a multi-stakeholder
public campaign, but that's just in the planning stages.
Now for the p
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