Moving my "just right" installed linux to new laptop (Solved)

[cstrike77]

EDIT:
Well I was bored one night and played with the cord between the brick and the laptop, which finally broke so I cut back the nub on the brick, then cut again which went too deep, then cut again and wired it up so it would work. No elect. tape so tried to keep the two leads as far away as possible. Booted to safe mode prompt, changed to my home directory and ran mylivecd. I have an iso, came to the library with it on a flash, downloaded the mobile live cd file and had it up on one of the library puters. It looks like it only took SDA1 but at least I can install on another laptop, when one shows up. Hopefully soon, bored out of my mind without a computer! Thanks all for your help!


My laptop PS finally bit the dust and supposedly a friend has found a new laptop, but he's not been given it yet.

But here's my problem:

I'm hoping it has a DVD burner, so I can stick my drive in it and make an ISO of my 10 gig drive so I can migrate it to the new drive. I've read here that you need to set it to re-scan for hardware, and I'd been thru most everything and could not find that setting. So if I stick my drive in the new lappy will I be able to get pclos up?

Thanks all!

[scoundrel]

did you look in PCC -- system services ?

[cstrike77]

did you look in PCC -- system services ?

What's it called? I looked at everything that was not checked and didn't see it.

[kjpetrie]

Try adding "hwdetect" to the kernel line in the boot stanza.

[Was_Just19]

Use mylivecd to make an ISO .......  either burn it to DVD or do a live install to a USB stick.

Install to the new PC from either .......  and all should be OK.

regards.

[kjpetrie]

All our replies presume you can get your current system running somewhere to access it. You seem to be able to do that from what you've written. If you can give more details of what you can and can't do with it we might be able to give more specific information.

Also, if you're prepared to open the laptop to connect your old drive (or you have some other means of doing so) you might be able to do a disc to disc copy using dd and then boot it with the hwdetect kernel option and install any new drivers required to make it work.

There are lots of different ways to do it and which is best depends on whether you can get it running and how much (CLI, GUI?)

You can add hwdetect to boot it from the Grub menu if necessary, but I can't remember which function key you need to press to do that. That should get it to boot on the new machine.

[Was_Just19]

You can add hwdetect to boot it from the Grub menu if necessary, but I can't remember which function key you need to press to do that. That should get it to boot on the new machine.

For an installed system .....  press 'Esc', then OK to go to non-graphical Grub options, select option, and press 'E' to edit and select the line you wish to edit and press 'E' again. Add the boot code as desired, press 'Enter', and then press 'B' to boot using the edited boot stanza.

That edit is only present for the one boot and would have to be applied again on the next boot, if required.

[cstrike77]

You can add hwdetect to boot it from the Grub menu if necessary, but I can't remember which function key you need to press to do that. That should get it to boot on the new machine.

For an installed system .....  press 'Esc', then OK to go to non-graphical Grub options, select option, and press 'E' to edit and select the line you wish to edit and press 'E' again. Add the boot code as desired, press 'Enter', and then press 'B' to boot using the edited boot stanza.

That edit is only present for the one boot and would have to be applied again on the next boot, if required.

Well, I can't get it up yet, no other lappy to put it on, as soon as it arrives (hopefully soon, I'm bored to death here without a puter) I'll let you guys know what works and what does not, I appreciate all the posts.