'moving' ubuntu to new laptop...

[Mario Splivalo]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 14:59 -0800, Tom Marshall wrote:
> > 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)?
> 
> Yes, you may copy the install between machines using tar.  This works quite
> well when you have both drives connected to the same machine:
> 
>   # cd /; tar cvf - bin boot dev ... var | (cd /mnt/otherdrive; tar xf -)
> 
> Note that there are a couple of things to keep in mind:
> 
>   Don't include lost+found in the tar command.
> 
>   Don't include mnt in the tar command (recursion!)
> 
>   You will need to run the boot installer (grub, lilo).  With lilo, this is
>   usually easiest done by booting with a resuce CD.
> 
> With a pair of laptops, you may not be able to connect both drives to the
> same machine.  If not, you will need to boot the target machine and get sshd
> running.  Then you can do something similar:
> 
>   # cd /; tar cvf - bin boot dev ... var | ssh otherbox "cd /; tar xf -"
> 
> Use ethernet if you can: the faster the network connection, the better.

I actually had in mind netcat instead of tar:

oldmachine# tar cvf - bin boot ... | nc newmachine 9876
newmachine# nc -l -p 9876 | tar xvf -

Much faster then going trough ssh :)

But, I did a fresh install, now I'm seeking for the best way to
sinchronize packages between two.

	Mike