[clue-tech] New System Configuration

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Mon Oct 8 21:02:09 MDT 2007


I've used this method to move Linux systems to new drives / new boxes,
and it works great.  A USB drive rescue kit can allow you to transfer
directly from source to target.

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:36 -0700, Hex Star wrote:
> You could also image the old system on the old drive via dd to another
> spare drive, then write that image to the new drive and that should
> work fine. Only issue is that the partitions will not consume the
> whole drive space but that can be solved easily enough via a tool such
> as gparted. :) 
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