Transferring my install to new computer

[Liam Proven]

On 23 June 2012 19:31,  <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Thanks Liam, that's kind of what I thought, but was not sure.  Imaging the drive is a great idea, but the HD has to be connected to something.  What I may do is install the harddrive, but boot the acer from a clonezilla CD and image to a usb drive.  It won't be fast, but I have all the pieces I'll need.

Ah. I keep a couple of those external-drive-USB cables handy. They're
only about £3 and a real lifesaver.

But yes, what you propose should work fine. Many tools can compress
the image so you won't need a block of space the size of the whole
drive. Don't bother backing up the swap partition and empty /tmp
before you do it.

Beware if you are using a FAT32 USB drive - it only supports a max
file size of 2GB, IIRC, which is probably not enough, so you'd need to
split your backup into many pieces.


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