Comments on: Move your Ubuntu system to another computer in 3 simple steps

By: Innovative Web Provi

Innovative Web Provi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:17:24 +0000

Have anyone tried this on version 11.10? I’m planning to migrate my ubuntu to my other PC right after I fix it. Thanks for this anyway, nice stuff you got there

By: Philippe Creux

Philippe Creux — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:03:49 +0000

I would rather leave /etc alone unless you edited files yourself. I guess you should use “sudo cp -r” :)

By: Aymen

Aymen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:58:52 +0000

Hi,
It seems very helpful article, but in Step 2 how I can transfer directories like /etc and /opt to the new machine? cause cp -r doesn’t work fine for me. Moreover, are the /etc and /opt directories enough for this kind of migration? Or should I transfer all under /?
Thanks

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:47:27 +0000

never mind, I wasn’t running bash…

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:41:35 +0000

Step 1 doesn’t work for me, I got “illegal variable name” error.

I have 10.04

By: Shay Guy

Shay Guy — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:59:26 +0000

I can’t seem to follow the various tutorials for rsync that are out there. Do I need to run in daemon mode or whatever? That seems more complex than it should be. I can’t even figure out how to resolve the hostname. (Both systems are on the same wireless home network — “network” meaning they can use the same router to access the Internet. But just using “destname” — as in “myname@destname:~$” — doesn’t work, I can’t find a USB-to-USB cable, and I don’t know if an Ethernet cable will do any good.)

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By: JB

JB — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:49:30 +0000

By the way thank you for this post, and I am running ubuntu 10.04,

cheers,

By: JB

JB — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:48:33 +0000

Hey,

How long is the last command supposed to take? it has been running (well I hope it runs, because I cannot see anything happening except that blank line) for 40 minutes and still nothing …

I ran
sudo aptitude install `xargs /home/user/pkglist`

cheers,

By: אילן

אילן — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:59:12 +0000

It turns out DOZENS of apps were left behind. Some like desktopnova have an install procedure that bypasses apt-get, but most are run-of-the-mil, standard ubuntu software center apps.

Guess we should come up with a more complete way to do this.