To follow up here a clean install is my suggestion as well. Backup and restore of your user profiles is pretty straightforward also. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:02 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Agree here, cloning disks on linux haven't worked for me in 20 years, > particularly doing anything like raid, encryption, or lvm. Start over and > just get a base os working. > > OS is fairly irrelevant outside of sysctl's and services loading from etc, > but meshing between major revisions or distributions here is problematic at > best. Clean build is best. > > I've imported my homedir's lock stock and barrel across versions and > distributions, to some varying success over the years, but I always run > into weirdness that leads me to largely blow out my home directory in doing > so too. If I nuke my system to go to another, I largely manually rebuild > it each time. I also try to re-document anything new, as invariably I'm > doing something with new hardware, mobo, secure-boot, and just general > distro weirdness, so it's often worthwhile to do so for next time, or at > least some good start to remembering what I did to make something work. > > Again, clean is best. Chrome has profile imports, most messaging means > too, rest I'm not adverse to rebuilding from logins to things I need. I > get weird issues across even google profile imports, but it's much harder > to nuke that and start over, sadly enough. > > Ubuntu hasn't upgraded cleanly for me between any revision since 10.04, so > I just presume I'm rebuilding it during an upgrade one way or another, and > often end up doing some major mods due to ubuntu blowing up an upgrade > horribly. I tend to now look at it as an opportunity for improvement > procedurally, but manual rebuilds afford me some "do-overs" I do not > discourage... > > Why I run Arch now with rolling upgrades - I've not had to "start over" in > years now, even with major kernel, graphics, and DE changes. Ubuntu on my > XPS has been a general disaster since upgrading from 16.04 on it which > worked mostly, then going 18.04, even upgrading to 18.10 it's still a > basketcase. Wayland replacement seems mostly the root cause. Feels like > when they shat Unity upon the public randomly. > > My goal is to get arch working on the xps too. So far, I haven't had such > luck sadly, so still stuck with ubuntu for it at least for now. > > -mb > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:30 AM Andrew McRobb > wrote: > >> IHMO, you are better off doing a fresh install to save yourself the >> headaches and time. Especially if you have SSD drives. Just 7zip your home >> directory, and use the many ways of transferring files today to the new >> computer. USB, Google Drive, rysnc, netcat, DVD. >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:37 PM Bob Elzer wrote: >> >>> first thing I would try is to clone the disks and stick them in the new >>> computer and see if it boots. >>> >>> it would help if you could give the specs of the old and new computers >>> what motherboards, how many disk's, memory and video cards >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:03 PM Stephen Elliott >> wrote: >>> >>>> How do I migrate the full Ubuntu 18.04 os, setup, and data to a new >>>> computer? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss