On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:05:04 -0800 Galen Seitz <[email protected]> dijo:
>As Tomas said, there's really no need to open up the laptop. Just >boot a live distribution from a flash drive and do the partitioning >and copying from it. Knoppix would be my choice too, but an Ubuntu >install image would probably work. Something I did not make clear: I do not intend to install Linux on the new computer. I intend to copy my existing Xubuntu installation to the new drive and make it bootable there. This may involve some finagling, for example, the new computer's video is 3840x2160 while the old computer is 1920x1080. I anticipate some issues, but I am sure they can be resolved. Also, over the years I have many, many times attempted to get two Linux computers to connect to each other, and I have always failed, in spite of massive advice here. I prefer to leave that issue alone. Having said that, an alternative that I have considered is using a live distro with GParted to partition the drive without removing it, then use a USB stick to transfer files from the old computer. (I have a GParted live disk, and also a 512GB USB3 stick.) But removing the drive and copying directly is simpler and probably faster. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
