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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I use remastersys: it can generate a
custom install DVD from your current running linux, works great.
Remastersys is limited to 3.6 GB in the iso image. This means you
probably don't want any humongous programs installed (like
flightgear & Libre & SpeedDreams). Remastersys lets you
exclude files and directories from the iso it creates. You also
want to pick a default home directory with not a lot of stuff in
it.<br>
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Remastersys is no longer supported but I have been able to get a
deb file and it works fine under 14.04 for me.<br>
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rsync might be a bit of a problem: since 12.04 ubuntu at least
uses GUIDs to identify drives in fstab for mounting (instead of
the old-style /dev/sda1 ...) so copying those files onto a
different PC might cause some interesting results.<br>
Here's what I would do (WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL WORK
FOR YOU)<br>
1) copy your home directory to an external drive (preferably with
ext4 file system so you do not loose permissions. Alternatively,
make a tar archive). Note: I agree with the previous poster ona
separate home partition for upgrades. In these steps it doesn't
make that much of a difference<br>
2) with Remastersys make an install DVD of your current system<br>
3) install the remastersys dvd onto your new computer<br>
4) create your user<br>
5) copy the home directory back from the external storage.<br>
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You might have to manually reinstall some (big) software packages
but since you migrated your home partition, all user settings
should be preserved.<br>
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Alternativly: synaptic has a way to generate a list of all
installed packages which can be read by synaptic for automatic
re-install (don't know the command, though).<br>
So, you could<br>
0) use that synaptic command I mentioned above and store the file
in home somewhere<br>
1) copy your home partition<br>
2) do a clean install on your new machine<br>
3) copy home contents back (watch permissions!)<br>
4) have synaptic re-install everything from step 0<br>
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<div class="moz-signature"><b>Lutz Andersohn</b><br>
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(925) 784 1565<br>
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On 05/12/2014 01:44 PM, Wes James wrote:<br>
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<div>I have migrated windows pcs and macs, but I haven't
done much in the way of migrating a linux box. What
do people suggest? Would rsyncing the disk to an
external hard drive then rsyncing back do the trick?<br>
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I.e.:<br>
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1. boot to level 3 or single user mode or recovery mode?<br>
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2. rsync old disk to new disk<br>
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3. on new system run line one above<br>
4. rsync backup disk to new disk?<br>
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I recently upgraded to xubuntu 14.04 and it is working well.<br>
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