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sgeorge

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 19

Migrating an existing archlinux installation to another hardware

hi,

I have an existing archlinux installation on a P4 and IDE HDD.
I want to move it to another core2duo machine with SATA HDD.

How do I go about it?

I don't want to loose any configurations I have made

Thanks

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nsa.wijayanto

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From: solo-id

Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 28

Re: Migrating an existing archlinux installation to another hardware

As for me, I usually did this:

1. boot another live distro (arch live cd for example)
2. mount the original partition and target partition.
3. use cp -a from original to target.
4. chroot to target (after bind mount /dev, mount the /proc and /sys)
4. alter /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect target partition (location and UUID).
5. alter /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (add scsi and sata hook).
6. update the initramfs.
7. install grub.
8. Done.

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Re: Migrating an existing archlinux installation to another hardware

Copy everything over or dd it, boot a live cd on the new box, chroot into your installation, edit rc.conf so it loads the right modules upon boot, rebuild the initcpio image and you should be good to go.

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