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> The whole enchilada! Just pick a drive to use for the new machine and do |
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> the install, chroot and all, with appropriate architecture/compiler |
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> flags for the new machine. When you move the drive(s) to the new |
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> machine, you can boot from the LiveCD to fix up fstab and grub. If the |
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> new machine has no CD capability, then you have more of a problem., |
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> perhaps find a floppy system that supports chroot? |
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IIRC, grub allows you to make a bootable floppy to install itself from, |
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so you should be able to just use that if the machine has no cd |
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compatibility. Just fix up fstab right before you take the disk out of |
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the old (currently used) machine. |
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