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Old 05-06-2007, 02:22 PM   #1
garmanma
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Migration Assistant Question


I'm running a dual-boot with XP and Ubuntu 6.06. I just upgraded to 7.04. From what I've read so far the migration assistant only comes on the live CD. Is there a way to download it? I already transferred all my bookmarks and contacts from XP, but I'd really like to transfer my documents, pictures and music. I'm a total noob still finding out where everything's located.
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Old 05-10-2007, 01:50 AM   #2
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If you have a broadband connection, you might try downloading the live CD, poke around and see if the tool exists as a standalone program.

BTW, you don't need to actually burn the CD for just poking around; you can just mount the iso file system directly. (If you find such a program. the easiest thing for a newbie might be to go ahead and burn the CD, boot it and run it from there.)

The way I know to mount the iso filesystem requires being root:

Code:
mkdir /media/loopmount
mount -o ro,loop nameofisofile.iso /media/loopmount
(There is another way to do the same thing these days w/o being root, but I haven't gotten familiar with it yet)

If you mount your iso filesystem as above, you can, for example search for any file with migration in its name as follows:

Code:
find /media/loopmount -iname "*migration*"
You should do this as root too, and the quotation marks are required. It might take quite a while, so you might want to go do somehting else while it searches.

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Old 05-11-2007, 07:09 AM   #3
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Thanks for the response. I'm a total noob. Even though I upgraded, I still have Shipit sending me a CD. When it arrives I'll poke around and see what I find
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