News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs. Parent comment

Re:Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs by yuhong on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:20PM (#13259817)
The SSD as a boot drive will require an OS reinstall anyway though.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs by anonbanker on Monday December 26, 2016 @05:07PM (#13260036)
dd if=/dev/originaldevice of=/dev/newdevice

Unless the system is too old to contain new drivers, or you're switching from x86 to arm, you shouldn't have a problem. I've done this multiple times, including a gradual upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 16.04.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs by copperx on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:44PM (#13259915)
Not really. I usually just image the boot drive.
[ Parent | on HN ]