What nice ideas to prevent new installations...! I didn't know that it was that easy to transfer a installation among different hardware. 2010/5/25 Figue <ffigue@xxxxxxxxx> > El 25/05/10 15:46, Vincent Schut escribió: > > Hi, >> >> I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I >> would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the >> need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the >> configuration I have... >> >> Could I just put my old harddisk (which is relatively new and still OK, I >> have SMART enabled) in the new pc and reboot? >> >> Both are amd 64 bit cpu's, the old one one of the first athlon 64's, the >> new one a Phenom II X6 1035T (and my current arch linux install is 64bit) >> >> Of course stuff like chipset, network chip, video etc. are all different. >> For video that would be no problem, I could install other (current = nvidia, >> new pc = ati) drivers from the text console. However, I'd like basic stuff >> and network to work :-) >> >> Could anyone give me an idea about the chance of luck for such an >> operation? Tips, hints? Or would you just advise a clean install and install >> and reconfigure all software again? >> >> Regards, >> Vincent Schut. >> > > Yes you can. > > Connect the hd but boot with a livecd (like Archiso), then mount proc, sys > and dev and make a chroot on your partition (for example into /mnt/hd), > something like this: > > mkdir /mnt/hd > cd /mnt/hd > mount -t proc proc proc/ > mount -t sysfs sys sys/ > mount -o bind /dev dev/ > chroot /mnt/hd > > Then reinstall kernel26 package or regenerate mkinitcpio image ;) > > Make sure in /etc/rc.conf have the correct modules and in /etc/fstab all > entries are correct. > > > Regards > > $(Figue) > > -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org
