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Title: Advice, new install or just move hard-disk to "newer" computer.
Post by: vilde on 2020/08/20, 11:24:31: My old Thinkpad T420 has some problems, so a bought a maybe a little newer T430 for the same price as the parts would have cost to repair the T420.
I 've done this many times but anyway I want to ask the question, what's best to do, just move the hard-disk or do a new installation? Normally it just works to move the hard-disk and do a d-u but maybe there are some benefits doing a new installation?

On the hard-disk is (of cause a fully updated) siduction 18.1.0 Patience - xfce - (201712310104)
I know that I have don a little of that and that, used some weird repos and so on, a new installation would probably be cleaner.
Title: Re: Advice, new install or just move hard-disk to "newer" computer.
Post by: hendrikL on 2020/08/20, 12:15:20: Quote from: vilde on 2020/08/20, 11:24:31
[...] a new installation would probably be cleaner.
Yes!
Free your system from cruft, which you collected over the times!
https://isobuilds.siduction.org/xfce/ -> actual, not tested but should work.
And maybe organize a ssd.hard-disk, if you don't have one.
Title: Re: Advice, new install or just move hard-disk to "newer" computer.
Post by: vilde on 2020/08/20, 20:18:19: Quote from: hendrikL on 2020/08/20, 12:15:20
Quote from: vilde on 2020/08/20, 11:24:31
[...] a new installation would probably be cleaner.
Yes!
Free your system from cruft, which you collected over the times!
https://isobuilds.siduction.org/xfce/ (https://isobuilds.siduction.org/xfce/) -> actual, not tested but should work.
And maybe organize a ssd.hard-disk, if you don't have one.
Yes thanks, I will probably do that.
Title: Re: Advice, new install or just move hard-disk to "newer" computer.
Post by: Strela17 on 2020/12/31, 13:15:24: I can confirm that going for a clean install is your best bet, a port of your already installed OS will be unwieldy, you'll have to manually correct a lot of errors there and there...
Title: Re: Advice, new install or just move hard-disk to "newer" computer.
Post by: capetillo on 2021/01/04, 14:05:17: Is there an automatic way to fix the errors?
Title: Re: Advice, new install or just move hard-disk to "newer" computer.
Post by: titan on 2021/01/06, 10:02:16: I would make a copy of your home folder on usb drive so you can copy back any self created config files after a clean install