Migrating a laptop from one distro (openSuse 10.2) to another (FC6)

[Bayard Coolidge]

>>> Did it actually have two physical disks, or just one disk split into two partitions?

Two Physical Disks, both 5400RPM 80GB SATA

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30C0 ctl 0x30B6 bmdma 0x3090 irq 201
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30B8 ctl 0x30B2 bmdma 0x3098 irq 201

>>> Either way, it would be useful to know what partitions exist
# swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sdb1                               partition       2104472 0       -1
# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2             20641788   6554976  13038172  34% /
udev                   1013740        92   1013648   1% /dev
/dev/sdb3             54206668   9595100  41858028  19% /home
/dev/sda1             65047152  27508060  37539092  43% /windows/C
/dev/sda2             12017228  10681452   1335776  89% /windows/D

>>> You might also give make and model of the laptop.

HP dv9000z

>>> Did the laptop come with restore/re-install media? 

It comes with a restore partition (on what we call
/dev/sda2 or WINDOWS/D), and I purchased a CD, too.

And, no, I don't trust the veracity of this recovery media - I suspect it will simply wipe what I had and reinstall everything to factory defaults. Which, in my particular case, isn't tragic, as I don't have anything useful/critical on the Windows partition.
But, I'd rather not have to find out...

I'm not familiar with CentOS, so I need to bone up on it before I decide what, if anything, I'm going to do. Fortunately, I didn't buy openSuSE - I downloaded it and burned a DVD, which is all I feel
like paying SuSE/Novell these days. As I mentioned,
I did try to install FC6, but that ran aground - I
suspect that this may be due to a known problem with
the x86_64 installer on Anaconda/FC6, but don't know
for sure.

Anyway, thanks for your observations and help,

Bayard


 
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