Changing machines.

[David Bird]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 10:58, 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...
>
 Ok if you've used apt-get to download them and haven't issued the clean 
command then they will be in /var/cache/apt/archives. The easiest way is to 
either use a lan or a cd to put this onto the other machine. I have done the 
cd version often. 
 
  Copy the contents to a cd then copy those to the /var/cache/apt/archives 
directory. Do a sudo apt-get update after having modified your sources.list 
to be the same as the first machine, then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade should 
mean you have very little to download provided the first machine is up to 
date.