Changing machines.

[Rob Blomquist]

On Friday 01 September 2006 15:58, gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen 
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm planning an upgrade... here is what I want to do:
>
> I've been using a loaner for about a year and now have to migrate to my
> 'other' machine - essentially a clean machine. I'm on dialup so don't want
> to spend 3-5 days downloading updates, etc.  I have considered DD-ing the
> HDD but am not sure if it'd work.
>
> what I want to know is this...
>
> I have 2 machines, one of which is up to date. I presume that somewhere on
> that machine is an archive of downloaded packages.  Can I install kubuntu
>  from the live CD on the new machine and modify the repository list to
> point at the old machines package archive? (hence saving me oodles of
> download pain).
>
> Alt. would be to copy the archive from a to b and point at local
> repository.
>
> so, 3 options...
>
> 1) DD the disk and hope hardware is close enough.
> 2) install from CD (no network to start with) on new machine and point
> repository at old machine
> or 3) copy package archive over to new machine after install and update
> locally.

I think the plan to install from CD, that is if it is a 6.0.6 CD. There are 
not all that many updates from 6.0.6 yet. On my machine it was probably less 
than a couple of dozen.

You could DD or just plain old copy the hard drive to the other machine, but 
you will be suffering if X complains, as you will have to reconfigure that. I 
am assuming that you have a LAN at your disposal for configuring the copy.

As to the updates that you have on the one machine (they are only archived if 
you ask for it to be). I would just copy them from where they lay, to where 
they should be in the new machine. One problem, though, is that the new 
machine may want you to get a few libraries beyond what the old machine had 
to get the new machine running right.

The other option is to just load the Live CD, and live with what is there, 
forgoing the updates.

Rob
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Mountlake Terrace, WA