On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: > A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual > core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was > going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march > native > Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best technology? > > Second is a complete reinstall a better option or safer?
are you using ACLs? if not a good old cp -auv is sufficient. But.. why clone the system? This is a good chance to get rid of cruft and forgotten packages. A clean installation (and copied /etc) might not be a bad choice. -- #163933
