Getting new hardware - can I just move the disk?

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:02:02 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Maybe I have to burn a DVD with the ISO image and load that into this system?
>
>From a later message, I gather this worked but the display was corrupted.
>
Yes the Ubuntu Mate desktop ISO when burned to a DVD and used to start the
system ended in an *unusable* screen.

Then I read others also having problems with Mate graphics so I burned a new DVD
with Ubuntu desktop (same version but NOT Mate).

And this actually did succeed to get to a barely workable GUI screen where I
could start GParted and check the drives.

I am now shrinking the single partition on my data drive to make room for the
partition copy from the system drive I want to do as a backup. It needs to
shrink from 465.76 to 224.61 GB. I started it quite a while ago and it is only
half done now.

When this was going on I realized that I should have done this from the server
itself, there must be command line tools that can do this too and then it would
not be so scary with this barely working live system. But that is hindsight...

If I walk away a while and come back then a screensaver has hit and I have to
move the mouse and massage keyboard to get it working again. Why do they have
default screensavers on live trials nowadays?
But I could get it back so all is not lost....

Now at 58% done...

>What is the GPU or the graphics card?
I don't really know....

This is an old Acer eMachine model EL1352
I found some data on-line:
- AMD Athlon II X2 220
- nVidia GeForce 6150SE
- 2GB DDR3 RAM
- 500 GB HDD
It was manufactured in 2010, I believe.

Now at 70%...


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden