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Gentoo_You
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 Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:30 am Post subject: How-To -> Transferring my harddrives to another computer? |
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It's about time for me to get a new system here! 
I'm still using the PII at 300mhz with about 350mb memory, and my fan is slowly dying and the sides are off of my box with the Windows drive hanging vertical for lack of bay space! It's noisy and compile times aren't that good.
Sooooo -> Is there a How-To somewhere on how to transer my 2 drives (1 - 40g Gentoo Linux && 1 - 120g Win2k) to a bare bones system. Of course Windows shoud basically be a 'plug in and work situation', but what about plugging in my Gentoo drive on a new motherboard/CPU... since I have my main OS Gentoo compiled already with the PII/MMX CFLAGS, etc. I have Drive Copy software, but I assume this isn't going to fly... will compiling my kernel with new settings and emerge with new use flags do the trick????
~~Oh I put this in Kernel/Hardware instead of Installation, who knows, move it if need be.~~ |
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Lucky B
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:53 am Post subject: Re: How-To -> Transferring my harddrives to another compu |
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| Gentoo_You wrote: | | Of course Windows shoud basically be a 'plug in and work situation' |
Windows will be plug in and won't work, guaranteed.
You can try using sysprep to prevent a Windows meltdown:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=772307
(read the sysprep part and follow instructions)
Gentoo will probably work mostly out of the box if you're upgrading from that old a CPU unless you need specific drivers in your kernel, try to turn on as much as possible as modules (or use genkernel) and be sure to autoload everything you need for your new system. Then just modify to the new flags that will optimize for your new cpu and start from emerge -e system and go from there. |
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Gentoo_You
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:07 am Post subject: Re: How-To -> Transferring my harddrives to another compu |
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| Lucky B wrote: | | Gentoo_You wrote: | | Of course Windows shoud basically be a 'plug in and work situation' |
Windows will be plug in and won't work, guaranteed.
You can try using sysprep to prevent a Windows meltdown:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=772307
(read the sysprep part and follow instructions)
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Cool, I was assuming Windows would work somehow, but painfully! If not I'd just wipe it and re-install since I don't really have anything that important on there anymore. I'm just trying to avoid the 'one week compile/optimization time for everything' in Gentoo experience. I just did that at work too. |
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Lucky B
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:32 am Post subject: |
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you could always wait for the new cflags to kick in when you upgrade
It only takes me 3 or 4 hours to emerge -e system if I don't use nice.
But I can play ET without problems while emerge is nice'd. |
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