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    and the christmas project was a success ;-)

    'Got an off-lease Dell D430 laptop to replace my netbook. 12" screen, 1.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 120gb 1.8" PATA HD and an external DVD burner from Dell Financial Services. $258 plus shipping, which ain't bad. I also bought a 64gb PATA SSD to replace the slowish IDE HD.

    Anyway, I used dd to create an image file of the netbook's drive on an external hard drive, installed the SSD in the new laptop, restored the image to the new laptop and everything worked out of the box. It took about an hour and a half in each direction to clone the netbook's drive but all I had to do was change the new laptop's hostname and change the MAC reservations on my router and everything works.

    New laptop runs Kubuntu flawlessly, is significantly faster than the netbook and has a bigger screen. All in all the clone was a complete success

    we see things not as they are, but as we are.
    -- anais nin
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    Re: and the christmas project was a success ;-)

    nice .........you got to love it when it works the first try ......LOL

    VINNY
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      Re: and the christmas project was a success ;-)

      That's great to hear, wizard. Congratulations!
      Xenix/UNIX user since 1985 | Linux user since 1991 | Was registered Linux user #163544

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        That is always nice.....

        As Sheldon said on Big Bang Theory, .....

        "Ahhh, there's nothing quite like a nice warm newly installed Ubuntu to make your day..... "

        woodsmoke
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          Most awesome! I just built a new desktop and I gotta say...man this metal loves having Kubunu on it. It fliiiiiies!! \m/
          ​"Keep it between the ditches"
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            Re: and the christmas project was a success ;-)

            Yup.

            Today I swapped the stock Intel 3945 a/b/g WLAN card for an Intel 6200 a/b/g/n card I had installed in my netbook. It took a little engineering since I replaced a full-height card with a half height card, but it works great.

            we see things not as they are, but as we are.
            -- anais nin
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              Re: and the christmas project was a success ;-)

              How's the battery life?
              "The only way Kubuntu could be more user friendly would be if it came with a virtual copy of Snowhog and dibl"
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                Re: and the christmas project was a success ;-)

                Originally posted by de_koraco
                How's the battery life?
                Haven't tested it yet but with a bigger screen and processor I imagine it'll be a fair bit shorter than the netbook.
                we see things not as they are, but as we are.
                -- anais nin
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