Create Back-up iso to tranfer Mint to new HDD. (Brand New User)

Stuart Hill · 03-31-2013, 03:36 AM

hi all, I am about to replace both of my current hdd's and have spent the last week learning Mint and getting the settings where I am comfortable (twin monitors, virtual machine etc)

I would rather not have to go through it all again so my question is...

Can I create an iso from my current configuration to burn and then use to install on new hdd?

I have been searching the forums but must be using the wrong query as some of the answers are sailing way over my head! ;-)

many thanks for any help

DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14
DISTRIB_CODENAME=nadia
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 14 Nadia"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.10, Quantal Quetzal"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu quantal (12.10)"
VERSION_ID="12.10"

ButterflyMelissa · 03-31-2013, 03:59 AM

Hey there,

Welcome to the forum, and Linux! You're in for a cool ride, lemme tell you that!

You can clone your drive, there is a tutorial about this...on the other hand, partimage seems just what you need...

By the way, different than the *other* one, all the settings are kept in your folder, so a simple copy of your folder (including the invisible stuff of course) should do the trick for the most part...

Thor

Stuart Hill · 03-31-2013, 04:05 AM

Thx Thor, I will take a look at the tutorial.

When you say "my folder" which one do you mean? My Home folder (on the desktop, or another one?

cheers.

ButterflyMelissa · 03-31-2013, 04:12 AM

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Thx Thor, I will take a look at the tutorial.

You're welcome

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When you say "my folder" which one do you mean? My Home folder (on the desktop, or another one?

Yup, it's the one that typically resides in the /home folder.
As you well know (by now), the Linux filesystem is a tree. Dont be at all surprised if the home folder lives on a different partition and that the /home folder is just a gateway to that partition...

Thor