On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:34:39PM +0800, Marek Otahal wrote: > * I'll do pacman -Qe > installed.txt (on the old one), pacman -S > $((cat installed.txt)) (on new) That isn’t likely to work right. You should use your favorite AUR helper for this, because this list contains AUR packages, too. > For other directories: /boot - nothing, /var - I dont care about old > logs, is there anything else important? You may have some useful stuff (eg. databases) in /var. And copying over /var/cache/pacman/pkg may be a good idea to speed up the installation. > /etc ... some files (related to hw) changed, but many (wifi, > iptables, cron, security, ...) stay ...is it possible to copy/merge > them in a smart way? Or I have to go through all the configuration? Go through a diff of both /etc’s and merge them by hand. That is the safest way. > I read this one: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrate_installation_to_new_hardware > and basically I'd like to elaborate on how to merge the configs in > /etc (or else?) As I said: by hand is the safest way. If you make a non-human do it, you may end up without your kitten. PS. I did my migration back in February, from a system converted from i686 to x86_64 on an ext4 partition converted from ext3 (I am serious.) It went like this: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 # / dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/dev/sdb5 # /home grub-install /dev/sdb # configured for (hd0,1); GRUB1. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 # vim:set textwidth=70:
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