Re: cloning a desktop to a notebook

["Kent Borg" <user=107@nabble.blu.org>]

 David Rosenstrauch wrote: 
> You could probably also just tar up the file system from the desktop, 
> and then un-tar it back to the laptop.  (i.e., boot the desktop into a 
> live cd, mount the HD, and then zip up it's contents)  You'd probably 
> have to tweak a few things (e.g., install a MBR onto the HD of the 
> laptop, alter the list of kernel modules you need to load, etc.), but 
> other than that it should pretty much work. 

I essentially did that recently when my notebook was in for repairs and 
I wanted to run off of an external USB disk.  After doing a dummy 
install to get the USB booting working, it was something like an "rsync 
-a" of everything, go back and edit things like /etc/fstab and 
/boot/grub/menu.lst (others?) so the new volumes would be found, and I 
was there.  (Not only did it work, it was legal--take that MS users and 
DMCA supporters.) 

But this is not what I did when my notebook came back: I installed from 
scratch (this time encrypted, including hibernating to encrypted 
swap--Ubuntu is getting better), and then I referred to my admin.txt 
file where I keep a log of all system configuration changes I do.  Copy 
and paste to build a few massive "apt-get install" invocations and I was 
close, and then careful decisions as to what finishing touches wanted.   
I cleaned up some cruft in the process, the rsync approach will preserve 
the cruft. 

-kb, the Kent who also bought a larger RAM card, moving from a total of 
1GB to the maximum possible 1.5GB, kinda giving himself a new computer. 

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