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On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 22:12, Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote:
Hi - I am about to embark on a new adventure and am going to install/upgrade a new motherboard, with new processor, on-board graphics, and memory. (The old one is about 15 years old, dating back to the Pentium 2 core processor days.)
Oh boy. So, for such an old system, is the OS and/or data on a hard disk drive?
I want to keep my OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 system and all the custom application configurations as is.
Should be OK with Linux. A world of pain with Windows, of course. Are you buying a new SSD or something for the new one? If it's an HDD and you're not buying an SSD, you definitely should. If it's an old small SSD, buy a bigger one. Plug both into the new or the old computer, boot off a Live USB, use Gparted to copy your whole old partition(s) to the new drive(s). This will copy the UUIDs of the partitions as well, and if your `/etc/fstab` file uses UUIDs not device names -- as it ought to -- then it should Just Work™ on the new PC. Then put the old one(s) in a safe place as backup. On the new drive in the new PC, reinstall GRUB and you _should_ be good to go. P.S. the generally accepted netiquette is that a signature should be a max of 4 80-column lines. ;-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053