Geo wrote in a message to TOM.WALKER:

 G> From: "Geo" 

 G>  wrote in message
 G> news:d0aef6.ed4bc0{at}FidoNet.no-ip.info...

> You were Lucky them. There are Some MS apps that Cannot be MOVED by
> those transfer programs, I favored "Aloha Bob" myself, but must be
> re-installed.

 G> Really? Like what? I just moved my whole install manually from one
 G> machine to another (P4/1.5 to dual core P4/3.4), the only thing that
 G> gave me a problem was MDAC and I solved that by hand copying the
 G> files over after kicking windows file protection's ass. (damn I hate
 G> that service)

 G> Office, SMS's network monitor, publisher, frontpage, visual studio
 G> 6, autocad14, Pagemaker 6.5 and 7.0, freehand, a bunch of macromedia
 G> stuff, shavlik netchkpro, icq, outlook and address book, sqlserver
 G> and tools, avg, perl, codes galore, vmware, Nero, Acrobat, the list
 G> goes on and on an on..

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. 

Here is the process to optionally have both systems running when you are all done: 

Boot new computer from _any_ bootable linux live CD. Ensure that you know
the IP address and that sshd is running and that you can ssh into a root
capable account and that the new computer's drive is the same size or
larger than current system's drive. On old computer, run the following
command: 

`dd if=/dev/hda of=- | ssh root{at}ip.address.of.second dd if=- of=/dev/hda` 

Alternatively, if rsync is available on both the live CD and on the source
system, mount the new hdd as /mnt/hda run: 

`rsync -a / root{at}ip.address.of.second:/mnt/hda`

Or you could physically move the new drive into the old system for as long
as a copy would take. 

When you boot, the system detects the hardware. If something doesn't
detect, there are ways to force a redetect and configuration. 

Note that we could also do this same type of migration using OS2 back in
the dark ages of 1994 simply using an xcopy /h/o/t/s/e/r/v. 


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

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