I cannot be sure why exactly, but after waiting ages for the iso to be compiled (and trying that a couple of times to be sure) I just couldn't get the remastersys backup distro to work. I managed to get an ISO image fine, and I could install it on the USB stick, and then boot from that same stick. However when I tried to install onto the new machine's hard disk it failed during the file copying process (306% in). After three failed attempts I've fallen back to: installing Ubuntu desktop onto the new machine. After that I installed both openssh and nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server so that I can copy files from the old machine to the new machine. mount the / of the old machine on /old on middenface james@middenface:/old$ sudo mount sternhammer:/export /old made a backup of…
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