Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 31 December 2006 04:02, Eduardo Trápani wrote: >> I just wrote to debian-users because I need to move a whole debian box >> from a powerpc iMac to an intel pc. The problem is that there seems to >> be platform specific files in use and that means that simply >> reinstalling packages and copying /etc will not be enough. > > You need to identifiy those files that _seem_ to be platform specific. > > From my experience there are basically none. When my ibook broke, I > installed the same packages on a i386 laptop, copied the configuration > files and /home and kept working :-) > > "bacially none" because the bootloader config is different and I used a > different partitioning, so fstab was different too... > > Stuff in /usr/local is likely to be platform specific, too. But not in > /etc. Me too had no problems migrating from a PowerBook G4 to MacMiniIntel. Half a year ago installation was a little bit tricky, but I think nowadays it does not present any major obstacle. (But I think that you still need to install efi before trying to use the a recent build of the Debian CDs.)
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