'Yes', the additional RAM worked wonders – Helps AntiX deliver on promise of breathing new live into an old machine (HP Pavilion dv1000) now with 2 GB instead of 512 MB RAM! Haven't hit the SWAP since and the performance is amazing. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I ordered a faster (7200 rpm vs 4200 rpm) PATA HDD at the same time as the RAM.

But this machine has only one HDD slot so I'm stumped as to how to clone the old HDD onto the new one. The dv1000 has a couple of USB ports but apparently no possibility of booting from either.

I think I can clone the current HDD to a USB thumb drive using dd but I'm drawing a blank as to what to do after that... Unless I boot from the Antix-16_386-full.iso CD and then run dd to overwrite what ever is on the new drive with everything from the old drive that is on the thumb drive.

Does that seem reasonable or is there a better/realistic way to get this done?

Thanks!

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Or clone it with a live cd of


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A task for tomorrow.

Thanks!

By-the-by - I used the package manager to install clonezilla. Is that the same as having a live CD of it?

I don't know if it is like gparted. Where no work can be done on a drive where it is installed to, is being used. Some other member will have to tell you.

It has always been my policy to run live sessions when attempting something like rearranging partitions or any other drive work.

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INOV8TN wrote:By-the-by - I used the package manager to install clonezilla. Is that the same as having a live CD of it?

I've used Clonezilla many hundreds of times. I don't install it, just run it as a live CD on older kit and boot the system I want to copy using the live CD.

Went with Clonezilla Live but no joss - errors on old disk prevented completion.

Copied Bookmarks and swapped HDDs, ran Antix iso CD and am copying bookmarks to search bar then adding them one-by-one because I didn't save them as HTML.

This little notebook seems quite perky w/ new RAM and HDD. Now looking to update bits and pieces as I recognize things that need work.

I haven't found a 'COMPLETE' Button butt I would push it wrt this conversation.

Thank you all for your help!