Getting new hardware - can I just move the disk?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 09:54:29PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:22:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >IIRC you can see the BIOS' user interface, so no test is needed :D.
> >Just use an Ubuntu 18.04 live media by booting into a console
> >session, instead of booting a desktop environment session. Don't use
> >gparted, simply use command line to run "rsync", or "cp -ai", or "tar"
> >or ...
> 
> But I thought that the live systems (DVD(USB) did not have access to any of the
> drives etc, except for GParted which somehow circumvent this limitation?

There's no limitation to circumvent.  A live system typically won't have
your usual filesystems mounted by default, but there's nothing to stop
you mounting them yourself.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]