New Boxen

[Alan Dayley]

On Mon, October 2, 2006 3:13 pm, augie wrote:
> Hey Pluggers,
> Got a question, you guys might be able to provide some answers for.
> I've been running Simply Mepis on an older case and (noisy) hardware (AMD
> Athlon 1.1) and have aquired an HP with a 2.1G cpu and bigger HD and no
> noise.
> My question is how do I move my /home from the old boxen to the new one?
> I've installed the OS on the new one. Do I just hook up the old hd to the
> new
> one as slave and dd the /home partition using a live cd? If anybody can
> provide the correct (in detail) processes, I'd be forever indebted.

I asked a similar question just a couple of weeks ago.  Check through the
thread and see if one of the methods described makes sense to you.

http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20060916.220530.b4be908b.en.html

Alan