When I'm upgrading my boxes, I like to just buy a new drive and do a
fresh install there. Then hook up the old drive (I have an external USB
adapter for this) and copy over the data I need. This approach *is* a
bit more expensive, but it buys me a large safety margin in that if the
new install borks on me, I still have my old environment as a backup.
I'll reuse drives after a reasonable amount of time, and having a couple
of spare drives around for whatever purpose is always handy. But this
isn't the "right" choice for everyone, I know...
Good luck with the upgrade/migration.
Shawn
On 10-09-20 11:50 AM, Richard Carter wrote:
Shawn,
Thanks for your reply. Judging from what you wrote I believe I have
just a "typical desktop/workstation" with no special features of the
type you mention. So I guess I'll copy over just /home.
Robin
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Shawn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You haven't given us enough information. If this is a typical
desktop/workstation, then copying /home may be all you need to do.
But, if you have a special setup, there may be more. For instance,
if you have setup Apache on the old box for development purposes,
you may want to move over your customizations (if any) for Apache.
If you have set up revision control, you would need to explore how
to migrate your repositories, etc.
In my case, I *do* have those sort of specialized setups. But when
I upgrade or install a new box, I just recreate them as needed - it
only takes a few minutes, and helps keep me in practice and the
knowledge fresh. :)
HTH.
Shawn
On 10-09-20 11:31 AM, Richard Carter wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have 2 desk top PCs both with AMD64 processors: "new" with AMD
Athlon
II X4 635 and no OS, "old" with AMD Athlon 64 2800+ and debian
5. I'm
going to install debian 5 for AMD on "new" and I'm usure about which
files from "old" I should copy over to "new". I'll certainly
copy /home
but what about /etc, /var and /usr?
Robin
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