Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Amazing Ubuntu Conversion!

Okay, we have these cool new workstations. They are Sun Ultra 20s with
  • Two dual-core AMD Opteron 1218 (four cores total) at 2.6 GHz (Santa Ana 90nm)
  • 2 GB RAM
  • Two 250-GB SATA drives (Hitachi HDS7225S)
  • RW DVD, etc.
Of course I quickly installed Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft and I'm now turning it into my workstation.

Here's the cool part. I copied all of my files over from the old system.

cd
scp -r oldhost: .


Since this copied all files including window manager and Gnome configs, this brought over my complete environment! I'm done! The whole conversion consisted of that!

Of course I had to log out and log back in.