Gerry Doris wrote:
I have a working FC6 system that is running on an old tired PC. The FC6
install has several non Fedora applications running on it and the
standard applications have the normal modifications. I now want to move
to a new faster PC.
I loaded FC8 on the new PC and it worked without a problem so I know the
new PC works with FC8. I've configured the new PC hard drive with the
same partitions as my FC6 PC. However, the drives are much bigger on
the new PC and are named differently. For example, the old box has an
hda and hdd but no hdb or hdc for some reason?
I really don't want to do a fresh install, load and then configure the
applications from scratch. Ideally, I'd like to copy the FC6 system to
the new PC and then upgrade it to FC8. I know it won't be clean but
I've upgraded in the past and understand the process. I'd also rather
do the upgrade to FC8 on the new PC for a number of reasons.
What is the best way to do this? Can I copy over the contents of the
partitions and then try and modify the key files so it will boot? I'd
have to change grub.conf and fstab but what else would need to be
modified. If I can get the system to boot I'm confident I can make the
other necessary changes .
I had a system on which I installed FC3, and subsequently built
everything from nahant source and replace all the packages (well, all
that I managed to build).
I also installed a few extras, such as pine.
When time came to replace it, I installed Scientific Linux on a clean
system, then used the package list from the old box to generate "yum
install" commands for everything. Something like this:
rpm -qa --qf 'yum install %{name}\n'
and then transport the list.
I repeated running the list until clean;-)
I then copied /home and any other valuables I could think of, and kept
the old system on hand just in case.
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Cheers
John
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