Geo wrote in a message to David.Calafrancesco:

 G> From: "Geo" 

 G>  wrote in message
 G> news:a0af22.f1a915{at}FidoNet.no-ip.info...

> Here is the process to do a similar migration using Ubuntu:
>
> Power down P4/1.5 computer, move hard disk to new computer, power on.

 G> I used that process the week before when my original system went up
 G> in smoke and I moved to a temp box. But then I needed to move to the
 G> new system and from 9gb scsi barracudas to 250gb sata drives.

That's where the dd comes in :) 

You can choose to dd the raw drive or dd each partition. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave{at}drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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