On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:15:08 +1100 Bill Donoghoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am about to upgrade a HP notebook to a larger hard disk (replace > the 90Gb disk with 500Gb) and double the RAM (from 2Gb to 4Gb). In > addition, to complicate matters, I would like to LVM on the larger > disk to manage the linux partitions. > > This is the final stage of my slow move from Windows to Linux. I have > the luxury of having two HP notebooks with similar but not identical > hardware specifications (NC8430 and 6910p) to test various aspects of > the migration (Virtual Box, video drivers for Ubuntu, etc). the > current situation is that one machine has my Windows XP environment > and the other my Ubuntu environment (Jaunty). > > I want to end up with a Windows partition and LVM managed Linux > partitions on > HP NC8430, 500Gb HDD, 4Gb RAM > > Here are the requests for advice: > > 1. What do I need to do to get Ubuntu to use 4Gb RAM? My current > Jaunty installation only recognises around 3Gb. Is this just a > kernel upgrade or .... I just went through this with Debian Lenny: use the "bigmem" kernel. Can't help much on the other questions though. Cheers, Alan > > 2. How complicated is it to move my "linux setup" from a single > partition to the lvm partitions on the larger disk. My latest > thought is to: a. update Ubuntu on the hard disk to match the current > working environment (fix apt-get config files and/or dpkg -l on both > and diff them, and them update) > b. If I copy /usr and /var from the working environment to the new > environment will that cause problems? (it will save re-installing some > software that isn't managed by apt) > c. copy /home from working environment to new disk (recommended > method? rsync to new drive connected via USB?) > d. use pgdump / pgrestore to move postgres databases across > e. Backup new disk > f. find out what doesn't work? What have I missed? > > Thanks, in anticipation > Bill > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
