[QCLUG] Transfer Home from one computer to another

[Arron Lorenz]

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I've mentioned this before I think but the Home folder usually just holds
the data, and conf files and what not. Apt on Cd will help you transfer the
programs also. I don't mind re downloading what I need but this is nice for
speed.

http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Arron Lorenz

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mark Riedesel <mriedesel@gmail.com> wrote:

> Copying your home from one machine to another would probably be the
> simplest, most straightforward way to do it. There's lots of tools for
> copying stuff from one machine to the other over a network (scp,
> rsync, etc..)
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> > Good Morning All, I have two desktop computers. I currently have one
> setup
> > with Vista (spit spit - sorry, had to get the bad taste out of my mouth)
> and
> > the other has Ubuntu 8.04. When I have convinced myself that I no longer
> > need Vista I will set that machine up as Linux and retire the other
> except
> > for testing things. My question is, will I be able to install Linux on
> my
> > box that is currently Vista and then transfer my "home" to that box so I
> > don't have to set everything up again? The other option would be to set
> a
> > duel boot to Vista now and then just remove vista, clean up Grub and
> resize
> > the Ubuntu partitions when I no longer need Vista.  Which would be the
> > better approach?
> >  Thanks for the Help.
> >  See Ya All Tonight.
> >  Bob Jones
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