I should have read your post properly - you did plan on backing the win10 disk as I described.
Nevertheless rsync would work just the same over the network. When copying you original Linux / dir from the old laptop - do not forget to skip /proc /tmp and other temporary OS only dirs. T On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 19:19 <[email protected]> wrote: > When I do such things, I do not bother with adapters, even opening the > laptop. > > I simply boot the laptop to live Linux OS - Knoppix is my favorite, but > any live > linux bootable from USB stick is fine - Then I save (dd) the drive over the > network to NAS or other other PC. > > Reading the disk and compressing the data is typically way slower than a > wired > network, so there is no speed advantage in using a dongle. > > the actual command would look like: > dd if=/dev/sda | ssh user@computerName 'cat - > fileNameOnTheOtherPc' > or if you want to compress before sending it over: > dd if=/dev/sda | xz -c | ssh user@computerName 'cat - > > fileNameOnTheOtherPc.xz' > > Obviously your NVMe device will show up as /dev/nvme..... not /dev/sda > > Maybe that can be an option too. > > Tomas > > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 15:39 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > My new computer will be here next Thursday with a 1TB Solid State > > Drive, M.2 PCIe-NVMe, Opal (from the Lenovo web page). When it arrives > > the drive will have Windows 10 on it. My plan is to remove the drive > > from the computer, put it in a USB adapter that I can plug into my > > current laptop, then use GParted to delete the partition(s) and create > > new ext4 partitions for / and /home. Then I will copy everything from > > the / and /home partitions on my current laptop to the respective > > partitions on the new drive, make / partition bootable, and put the > > drive back in the computer. > > > > Although I've never done this before, I assume it is doable. However, I > > need a USB adapter to put the new NVMe drive into, preferably by > > Thursday. I am guessing that such an adapter is not in stock anywhere > > locally, so I went online and found this one: > > > > > https://www.newegg.com/p/0VN-006F-00039?Description=nvme%20enclosure&cm_re=nvm > > e_enclosure-_-9SIA6V88SG2944-_-Product > > > > I am not sure that the above adapter is the correct one for my new > > drive, nor do I know if there might be a place to obtain such an > > adapter locally. And I also invite other suggestions regarding my grand > > scheme to port my current OS installation to the new computer. > > > > Any suggestions welcome! > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
