[ltp] Need to migrate from a T30 to new T41

Lars Burgess linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:43:15 -0800


I would boot a LiveCD and use cpio while preserving permissions. dd
might crash if the drives aren't of equal size IIRC.

-Lars

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:48, Jericho Gutierrez wrote:
> I'm upgrading to a T41 from my existing T30.  I'd like to move all my data
> from my T30 hard drive to the new one with minimum hassle.  Can I simply do
> a dd copy of the drive to the new one and then do a kernel re-config for the
> new hardware?  Or is it not worth the headache?
> 
> thanks
> - Jericho