But the the last line of your messages makes me worry: > Oh, and my replacement is a B/W G3. Fantastic.
Since you are downgrading from a G4 to a G3, I don't think all your fink packages will survive this. For example, scientific programs like R, Numeric Python, octave etc. may be compiled with ATLAS or Altivec support. I can imagine that you'll get into trouble if you don't recompile those. Also, I'd recommend double-checking the system requirements for X11 (like 256 MB RAM for Apple's Beta 3,...). My condolences, Jens On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Mark Wilson wrote: > > On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 04:47 PM, Matt Richardson wrote: > > > I just found out that my lovely MDD G4 is being claimed by someone > > else: > > my new boss. Not such a big deal, except for the PITA of recreating my > > fink-installed packages on another machine. Is it possible to copy the > > /sw directory over to a new machine? I know that there are a lot of > > gotchas to deal with, like X11 directories outside of /sw, but are > > there > > any huge disadvantages to this? I'm being lazy and should just copy > > the > > .deb files over after installing fink, but I was curious to hear the > > wisdom of the list. > > > > [snip] > > I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner, available here: > > http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html > > It preserves permissions and copies hidden files. You can copy your > whole drive or a part of it. I think you will need your home directory > as well as the sw and X11R6 directories. I don't know if anything else > is needed for fink, but you might experiment before you give up the G4. > > Regards, > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines > at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
