Moving F13 to a new pc

[philpiero]

hi all.

I would move an F13 installation and its programs and configs to a new pc.
I can move partitions with no problems.
The question is: what about new hardware devices configuration?
I don't know well if HAL can help me in this operation. I heard about kudzu, too.
So I don't know how resolve problem.
Somebody can help me??

Thanks.

[pythagorean]

I just used the back up and restore tool. I installed F13 on a second machine and then used the back up from the first machine to get the second machine up to basically the same configuration. The back up and restore tool is called deja dup.

I have never found that my linux installs are particularly sensitive to hardware changes the way Windows is. I have even just plugged in a hard drive with fedora installed on it into a new motherboard/cpu and it booted up just fine.... and that was a change from an Athlon 7850 BE and an MSI motherboard to a Phenom II and a Biostar motherboard.

[DBelton]

I haven't found them to be very sensitive either. I have taken hard drives with a Fedora install out of one machine and just plugged it into another and have it boot up and run great before.

About the only worry would be if you have installed your own kernel modules, say for example.. for an nvidia card, and the new machine doesn't have an nvidia card.

Most of your hardware is detected and set up at boot time, so most wouldn't be too much of a problem moving it over.

I did have one quirky problem one time, though. And that was with a totally different sound card. One machine had the Intel enhanced sound, and the other had an audigy2. There was a little confusion with pulseaudio that I had to manually go in an correct. I had to go in and change the output device. I guess that is something that is set up, then it expects it not to change. But, that was pulseaudio, not the OS.