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.<br>
<br><a href="http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/">http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Arron Lorenz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mark Riedesel <<a href="mailto:mriedesel@gmail.com">mriedesel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Copying your home from one machine to another would probably be the<br>
simplest, most straightforward way to do it. There's lots of tools for<br>
copying stuff from one machine to the other over a network (scp,<br>
rsync, etc..)<br>
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Mark<br>
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Robert Jones <<a href="mailto:Robert@rm-jones.com">Robert@rm-jones.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Good Morning All, I have two desktop computers. I currently have one setup<br>
> with Vista (spit spit - sorry, had to get the bad taste out of my mouth) and<br>
> the other has Ubuntu 8.04. When I have convinced myself that I no longer<br>
> need Vista I will set that machine up as Linux and retire the other except<br>
> for testing things. My question is, will I be able to install Linux on my<br>
> box that is currently Vista and then transfer my "home" to that box so I<br>
> don't have to set everything up again? The other option would be to set a<br>
> duel boot to Vista now and then just remove vista, clean up Grub and resize<br>
> the Ubuntu partitions when I no longer need Vista. Which would be the<br>
> better approach?<br>
> Thanks for the Help.<br>
> See Ya All Tonight.<br>
> Bob Jones<br>
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