[plug] new lappy, just move "home" ?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 8/18/05, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Looks like I _may_ be getting a new laptop (cause this new one is
> utter crap), I'd like to transfer my home environment with minimal
> fuss.. do you think it should just be a case of :
> logout and login as root
> kill X and GDM
> Copy it over... ??
> or is there something that I'm not thinking of that will cause a
> godawful mess on the new machine?


The only 'gotcha' I hit once was the user id number. My original user number 
was 1000. When I installed linux on the new machine by default/habit I 
created a user and being the first non-root user its number was also 1000. 
When I transfered my original user onto the machine it didn't like the idea 
of two users with the same number. :)

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Russ
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