[clue-tech] New System Configuration

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:02:09 -0600
David L. Willson wrote:

> 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. :)

Or, just use dd directly to the new drive to start with? No need for 2
steps, that I can see.