'moving' ubuntu to new laptop...

[Mario Splivalo]

My good company purchased me a new IBM ThinkPad R52, which is all neat,
with that orange light and stuff. My old laptop was Gericom Hummer, wich
had 6 USB slots, no wireless, no PCMCIA, had conexant modem, and stuff.
IBM has PCMCIA, has wireless (Intel W2200/Pro something), and stuff...

I just partimaged the partitions originaly set up by IBM, and I want to
have just one big ext3 partition. When I do mkfs.ext3, may I just copy
the files from the old laptop to the new laptop (old laptop also had
only one partition, and new laptop has 20 Gigs more of the hard disk
space)? I tought i could use tar|nc to copy the files. What am I
supposed to do with grub to be able to boot on new laptop?
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should also be run, anything else? I think
I know how to setup wireless (I even think I won't be needing the
ndiswrapper, I hope not!), but what do I need to do with PCMCIa?

Or would it be better to put in the Ubuntu Install CD, install the
system, then copy the .deb packages installed on old laptop
to /var/cache/apt/archives, and install all of them, and at the end just
move the home directory?

Somehow first option seems significantly faster, I'm just not sure how
much fuss is to set up the system when I just copy the files?

	Mike
-- 
"I can do it quick, I can do it cheap, I can do it well. Pick any two."

Mario Splivalo
msplival at jagor.srce.hr