Transplanting Ubuntu 24.04.1 server to new hardware, best approach?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:53:04 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have an Ubuntu server running on a Lenovo Idea-centre minitower and I have
>recently managed to run a do-release-upgrade on it to get from 22.04.6 to
>24.04.1.
>
>The upgrade process seems to have worked but has not solved my problems with the
>grub boot menu, which does not update reflecting the new preferred kernel so it
>starts with an older kernel all the time. :-(
......

I gave up trying the transplant route, there seems to be so many obstacles and
also considering that my server was originally a 16.04.1 device dist-upgraded:

16.04.1 => 18.04.1 => 20.04.1 => 22.04.1 => finally 24.04.1

it probably was time to re-birth it and install fresh the things I need.

So I have done a test of doing this and I am now almost (?) done, there are only
a few items left functionally. I could use the original as template for
configurations etc and also to transfer files like logins and the like.

But I save that for another thread here.

Thanks for all the advice/help on this endeavour!

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden