On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:02:02 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Heath Morrison wrote: > > > I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to > > another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some > > specific configuration you wish to preserve? > > OK. I now have my root password on the new box. > > Can I get a consensus from all you professional SysAdmins on what I ought > to transfer in /etc/ to get this new box working on our network? I can't address issues other than printers. But in the process of migrating from Ubuntu Jaunty to Debian testing I asked on the CUPS e-list that I am subscribed to. I have copied and pasted the discussion below: On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:08:59 -0800 Helge Blischke <[email protected]> dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Can I migrate the printers installed in Jaunty to a new, fresh install > > of Debian testing (Squeeze)? > > > > Specifically, I have eight printers installed in Jaunty for a total of > > four laser printers that I own. I have so many laser printers because I > > do short run textbook publishing. Getting all these drivers installed > > and tweaked was no small task. > > > > When I installed Debian testing I bought a brand new hard disk for my > > laptop. Then I installed the old Jaunty hard drive in a USB enclosure. > > I boot to Debian, but everything on my Jaunty hard disk is a click and > > drag away. > > > > It would be awesome if I could find a folder with my printers in it on > > my Jaunty hard disk and drag it to the Debian hard disk. Is this > > possible? If so, how? > > You could try the following steps: > > (1) make shure your new installation has at least all the filters and > backends of your old CUPS installation. If not, install the missing ones > (maybe it is sufficient to copy the binaries over, but there is no > guarantee). > (2) stop the running CUPS > (3) copy your old /etc/cups/printers.conf to the new installation > (4) copy the complete contents of your old /etc/cups/ppd directory to the > new installation > (5) start your new CUPS > (6) see what happens. > > It might be that you need to do some tweaking afterwards, but the bulk of > your old work should have been retained. Helge, A thousand thanks. That worked perfectly. It saved me hours of work. I did have a couple issues: 1) I have no idea what "all the filters and backends" refers to. I ignored the instruction and apparently suffered no evil in doing so. 2) I had to google to find out that you stop cups by changing to /etc/init.d/cups/ and issuing the command ./cups stop, and start again by the command ./cups start. I add that information here in case someone else as dumb as me reads this thread in the future. Thanks again! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
