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Dimon-z

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 92

PC Arch to Laptop

Hello all
How to replace or copy my linux from desktop pc to laptop?
maybe archive all files with tar, and untar in laptop?

EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: PC Arch to Laptop

There are some problems with this method: You must have exactly the same partitions (or edit /etc/fstab file - replace UUIDS). You must have similiar hardware (or use fallback image and then generate new kernel image - the simplest way is by pacman -S kernel26). If you use network, you will have to change hostname in /etc/rc.conf and in /etc/hosts. There might be some other difficulties.

I think that it might be easier to install Archlinux, create the same user accounts, copy whole /home (this makes no problem), generate list of packages you have installed on desktop and install the same on laptop. You can generate the list of installed packages to a file called list.txt by using this command: pacman -Qq > list.txt

Edit: And if you do not want to download all packages again, copy /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* to your laptop.

Last edited by EVRAMP (2009-04-16 12:18:06)