Migrate FC14

[go3mon]

Hello,
my companies will change my notebook soon.

I have installed on my Thinkpad T410 FC14 and all software I need for work.

Now I must migrate to Lenovo X210s and I want all my programs without download again and install fedora from scratch.

Is it possible to make from my t410 a custom instllation iso with all my local software? (something like REMASTERSYS).

There are some other ways?

Thaks

-go3-

[bob]

(moved to Spins & Remixes)

[jpollard]

sure. If both video interfaces are the same, or you haven't added
proprietary drivers..

You should be able to do a dd of the filesystem (root, boot, home if any)
and restore it on the new laptop by booting (into recovery mode) a
distribution CD.

Once you have that you can partition the new disk (same size or bigger
than the original) and then use dd to restore.

Once restored you can then mount the new root partition, mount the
new boot partition (on the new root..). The do a "chroot <new root>".

This will allow to use grub-install to reinstall grub on the new disk.

reboot and things should "just work"...

[go3mon]

sure. If both video interfaces are the same, or you haven't added
proprietary drivers..

You should be able to do a dd of the filesystem (root, boot, home if any)
and restore it on the new laptop by booting (into recovery mode) a
distribution CD.

Once you have that you can partition the new disk (same size or bigger
than the original) and then use dd to restore.

Once restored you can then mount the new root partition, mount the
new boot partition (on the new root..). The do a "chroot <new root>".

This will allow to use grub-install to reinstall grub on the new disk.

reboot and things should "just work"...


mmmh I dont know if new laptop have same videocard.
Is not more easy to use deja dup as simple alternative to your procedure?

Ther'isnt a similar alternative to remastersys?

Thanks

-go3-

[jpollard]

The might not have to do is reinstall grub... but that would
only be true if you dump the entire disk and not partition by partition.
That makes the assumption that the disks are the same size.

And this is true for all methods of copying a live system.