> 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? When I broke my X60s LCD I took out hte hdd and put it in a USB-HDD box and booted it on a Asus EEEpc. Worked just fine. Some notes about what's needed: - an initramfs with usb (ehci, uhci) and usb-storage drivers - grub2 and fstab setup to look for filesystems by UUID - the Lan and Wifi would get new interface names (because of udev persistent naming) - it doesn't matter if you use NM or wicd - I didn't have a xorg config file, so X did find everything automatically (you'd need to have the x drivers installed though) The LCD was replaced since :) -- damjan
