Nekopa
10-23-2001, 07:07 PM
Hi All!
I have an old machine which I put zip slack on a while ago, and I was able to turn it from a USMSDOS file system to ext2 just by simply copying everything in every directory over to a linux partition. The FAQ I used said that this is one of the beautiful things about Linux is that there are no 'secret' files hidden anywhere, so you can basically copy your files to another partition and have Linux up and running from that spot.
Does this still hold true with all the latest and greatest distros? The reason I am asking is that I am thinking of compiling all the software on my system to tweak it for my Duron processor, then I want to burn all the directories to CD so if my system craps out, instead of reinstalling just basic i386 programs again, I can just copy over my tweaked system onto a Linux partition.
Anyone know anything about this. Because I know it is going to take a longtime to recompile all the software, so I would like to do this once, and then save the results on disk.
Lee
I have an old machine which I put zip slack on a while ago, and I was able to turn it from a USMSDOS file system to ext2 just by simply copying everything in every directory over to a linux partition. The FAQ I used said that this is one of the beautiful things about Linux is that there are no 'secret' files hidden anywhere, so you can basically copy your files to another partition and have Linux up and running from that spot.
Does this still hold true with all the latest and greatest distros? The reason I am asking is that I am thinking of compiling all the software on my system to tweak it for my Duron processor, then I want to burn all the directories to CD so if my system craps out, instead of reinstalling just basic i386 programs again, I can just copy over my tweaked system onto a Linux partition.
Anyone know anything about this. Because I know it is going to take a longtime to recompile all the software, so I would like to do this once, and then save the results on disk.
Lee