On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:17:34AM -0500, William Park via talk wrote:
> For /, /home, ... it's simple copy. Since you're using external USB, don't
> use "dd". "cp -a" should be good enough. Or, "tar -cf -".
> Never used "cpio".
>
> For /boot, it's different can of worm. You can copy over the
| From: William Park via talk
| Personally, I don't like UEFI.
I mostly like UEFI.
+ UEFI is less hacky than BIOS
+ UEFI knows it is running on a 32 or 64-bit system; BIOS thinks it is
running on an 8088
+ UEFI can be called from a modern OS; BIOS can only be called by 8088
code that
I wholeheartedly agree with Hugh here. Doing such a fundamental transition
using an existing install is more trouble than it’s worth in my experience.
> On Nov 25, 2021, at 09:40, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> wrote:
>
> Personally, I have done clean installs for these transitions. Clean
>
For /, /home, ... it's simple copy. Since you're using external USB,
don't use "dd". "cp -a" should be good enough. Or, "tar -cf -".
Never used "cpio".
For /boot, it's different can of worm. You can copy over the content,
but you have to update /boot/efi/EFI/DistroX/, so that your
| From: James Knott via talk
| I've bought a 1 TB SSD drive to replace the 750 GB drive in my ThinkPad. I
| was considering using the opportunity to change to UEFI. I'll be mounting the
| old drive in an external case so that I can copy over the partitions, one of
| them NTFS.
Superstitious
On 2021-11-24 12:49 p.m., Daniel Villarreal wrote:
I've not done that, but first I'd recommend doing a backup/clone to
the new drive with the old setup.
As I mentioned I will be copying from one drive to the other, as I have
done before. The question is regarding any issues with switching to
I've not done that, but first I'd recommend doing a backup/clone to the new
drive with the old setup.
You might want to check out ...
"Move your Linux from legacy BIOS to UEFI in place with minimal downtime"
by Vincent Cojot
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bios-uefi
also...
"A BIOS to UEFI
I've bought a 1 TB SSD drive to replace the 750 GB drive in my
ThinkPad. I was considering using the opportunity to change to UEFI.
I'll be mounting the old drive in an external case so that I can copy
over the partitions, one of them NTFS. Anything I should worry about in
converting to
