Migrate Ubuntu to a bigger disk on a laptop

[Asif Iqbal]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Josh Holland <jrh at joshh.co.uk> wrote:
>> 2. generate a list of all the pkgs and save it on a file on another machine
> sudo aptitude-create-state-bundle bundle.tar.gz
>
>> 3. boot from a liveCD and wipe the disk clean
> fdisk
>
>> 7. take the pkg list file from remote machine and pipe it through
>> aptitude to install all the new pkgs
> sudo aptitude-run-state-bundle bundle.tar.gz
>
>> How do I make sure the rc scripts are setup same way? There are few
>> apps where I ran
>> the `sudo update-rc.d -f <appname> remove'. So the rc scripts are not
>> at default state
>>
> Probably easiest just to copy over the rc scripts

So just backup the /etc/rc?.d dirs ?

>
> (NB I am not absolutely 100% sure about the aptitude commands. My
> interpretation of the manpages is that they do what you want, but read
> them yourself.)
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