Remaster Success Story

[grnich]

Greetings:

Just wanted to relate a success story I had yesterday with a remaster.  I had an old, junky NOISY Toshiba Satellite, M35X-S1492 that I hated, but it was given to me, so I used it.  I finally got tired of fixing it and listening to that vacuum-cleaner-like fan.  So I was horsing around on ebay the other day and committed myself to buying a refurbished Dell Latitude D800:  solid, business-class, quiet machine.

So I created a remaster on my old Toshiba, MiniMe 2009.2 with all my customizations and tweaks.  When my new (used) lappy arrived, I booted up the remaster and all the hardware worked, just like that:  to include the integrated broadcom wireless and and the nVidia graphics.  I did a hard disk install off the remaster and 15 min later I was off and running with my new lappy.  

I love PCLinuxOS.

[Neal]

WooHoo!

[critter]

grnich,
Fancy doing a step by step how-to in tips and tricks? Some people (like me ) still have problems getting a reliable remaster.

Better yet, submit one to the mag!

Anyway, well done and glad it worked for you.

[MeeMaw]

Congratulations on your success!!!

and this is a great idea!!!!

grnich,
Fancy doing a step by step how-to in tips and tricks? Some people (like me ) still have problems getting a reliable remaster.
Better yet, submit one to the mag!

Anyway, well done and glad it worked for you.

 

[frazelle09]

Yes, please...

grnich,
Fancy doing a step by step how-to in tips and tricks? Some people (like me Sad) still have problems getting a reliable remaster.
Better yet, submit one to the mag!

Anyway, well done and glad it worked for you. Smiley


Have a great evening! 

[parnote]

Congratulations!

It would be good to have a step-by-step guide for the mag ... uhmmm ... 

parnote

[grnich]

I'm not sure it will work in all cases, making a remaster on one machine and installing it to another.  I had success going between two different machines, but they were both Pentium M's similar vintage.  Going between, for instance, a Pentium M and a Core-Duo may not work.  I'd be interested to hear if anyone has tried it.

As far as tips and tricks go, I just clicked 'Make Live CD' and followed the prompts, then burned the resulting ISO to CD.

 

[frazelle09]

grnich, could you indicate what you "filled in" for each of the prompts, please? i follow the prompt, too, but still can't get a remaster so your more complete steps would be a great help.

Thanks and have a great evening! 

[Animal]

May I offer you this for your success

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,65590.0.html