John, Booting live linux OS from USB stick is not installing it. It does not put anything on your disk unless you do it yourself - like with the rsync mentioned.
BTW, windows license supplied with hardware is not legally transferable. Practically, you would need to extract the activation code from BIOS and it would talk to MS on activation. So, if MS cares, they would know that it is on different computer than your new Lenovo. Anyway, I would encourage you to try and play with live Linux running entirely from USB. Regardless whether you use it for the stated purpose or not. It is fun, pretty amazing/liberating and it could save your pants/data some day. Best luck and a lot of fun with your new computer. Tomas On Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 00:59 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
