How to update system info (after installling an image on a new computer)

[FredericF]

Hello everyone,

I've just receive my new Dell desktop (yé!) and I used CloneZilla to move everything from my old computer to the new one. I made an image of the disk of the old computer and 'restored' this image on the new one.

For most of it, it worked well: it was relatively quick, and I have all my old settings except everythings is going quicker. But the new system is not entirely recognized: the processors are correctly identified, but I can't see the new RAM memory: hardinfo, free or cat /proc/meminfo all seem to refer to the memory of the old system, not the one that is on the new computer.

Is there a way to force the system to reinspect the hardware and 'discover' its new ressources?

Thanks for your help!

[Kirboosy]

Welcome to the Forums! :)

Is the old Image a 32 Bit system and does new computer have 4 Gb of RAM or more?


~Caboose

[rcayea]

Maybe try, the command, lshw

or to get info about the product and vendor and so on:
dmidecode

Here are some other commands to try:
dmesg
lsdev
lshal
lspci
lsusb
lsscsi

I found most of this information at this website which may be helpful:
http://puschitz.com/pblog/?p=29



Hello everyone,

I've just receive my new Dell desktop (yé!) and I used CloneZilla to move everything from my old computer to the new one. I made an image of the disk of the old computer and 'restored' this image on the new one.

For most of it, it worked well: it was relatively quick, and I have all my old settings except everythings is going quicker. But the new system is not entirely recognized: the processors are correctly identified, but I can't see the new RAM memory: hardinfo, free or cat /proc/meminfo all seem to refer to the memory of the old system, not the one that is on the new computer.

Is there a way to force the system to reinspect the hardware and 'discover' its new ressources?

Thanks for your help!

[FredericF]

Hello Caboose,

You spotted the problem right away! I thought I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 x64 on the old computer, but I just checked and the system architecture is i686.
The new computer does indeed have more than 4 Gb or RAM, (12 Gb! double-yé!), and I want to be able to use every byte of it. So I guess that I will have to do a clean install after all...

Thanks again for your sharp eye!

[FredericF]

Hello Rcayea,
Thanks for the link. I will check it out, commands that allow you to get detailed system info are always useful!

[Kirboosy]

Glad I could help.


Once again welcome to the forums :)


~Caboose

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