searching a method providing the migration of a whole F20 installation to another Fedora box

Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 16:19:41 UTC 2013


On 10/17/2013 05:39 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi testers
>
> Some months ago I installed F20 on some box. Because it runs stable, I
> tried to migrate this F20 to another box. So I copied the filesystem(s)
> of that F20 to the target machine, and after having conformed fstab,
> grub2 bootloader and some other files to the target machine, I tried to
> boot, the boot was performed partially, but did not complete.
>
> The target machine runs F19.
>
> This method did run in earlier Fedoras!
>
> My question: is there a method to copy safely this F20 to another box?
>
Not exactly recommended, but its a good idea to rebuild your initramfs 
using dracut, or disable it in grub so all kernel modules are loaded 
properly on reboot.


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