Re: How to Migrate to a new PC

[Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 .

Others have given some good advice.  I asked the question about 
upgrading to F8 from FC6 last week and received some PM's that, in 
simple terms said don't attempt an upgrade to F8.

There are changes to the way things work and you could spend days or 
more cleaning things up.

I really liked John's comments and little script to install all the 
packages from a previous install.  This goes into my handy file list for 
future reference.

Until the Java issue is worked out, I cannot move to F8.  I run a 
program that needs the Sun Java.

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Robin Laing