Re: Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

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On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
Hi,

I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I
have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in
return.

I'm not sure what would be the best path to follow to recreate my debian
environment in the new machine. I cannot repackage packages because the
architecture is different,but maybe there is an automatic tool to save
the configuration and the list of packages.

On top of that, I don't know if things like MySQL databases can be
simply copied or if I should export/import them. Is there a way to know
if a package data is platform independent? (little/big endian issues
and things like that).

Thanks, Eduardo.
Hi,
you basically want to save the data, the /etc and your program list
(dpkg --get-selections).
Just install the basic system on the new box
use 'cat yourlist.txt|dpkg --set-selections'
then a 'dselect-update'
this will then bring in all the same packages.
Then you can move in the /etc/ data to setup the configurations.
or you can just use the /etc files as a reference and just configure it
manually.
you should be able to move /home will little problems.
Of course you will have to setup all your hardware: network, video, etc.
As for the data base, you can 'dump' the data in various formats. Maybe
you can setup the 2 machines to work together and ftp the data from one
to the other.
Cheers,
Kev
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