[clug] what is best way to migrate a whole computer's content to another?

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Thu Mar 8 23:38:59 MST 2012


On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, jhock wrote:

> I have bought a new computer and I want to move all the stuff I have on
> my old EeePC to the new one. I have a 1 terrabyte external hard drive
> that I can use for temporary storage. Of course I will backup all my
> data directories before attempting anything. ;--)
>
> I am running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

clonezilla.  You'll feel right at home on your new machine :-)

I note the thread has wandered off into cleaning stuff up.... I'd suggest 
doing that as a separate exercise.... which will oviously be indefinitely 
defered :-)

> John

Yours,
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Peter Barker                          |   Programmer,Sysadmin,Geek.
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