chromedome
March 27th, 2011, 07:24 PM
Greetings, all:
I've been around here since summer 2007, and haven't posted much because I can usually find what I want. Forgive me for covering what must be well-trodden ground, but I'm reluctant to try pulling the information I need from multiple threads of different vintage.
I'm currently running Lucid on an elderly Celeron-powered Optiplex GX 270. It runs... adequately. I'll shortly be inheriting an HP DV-9000-series laptop, which I will be setting up with a clean install of Lucid.
My question is, how do I go about transferring my files and such to the new system? I don't begrudge the time involved in re-installing my programs, but if possible I'd like to replicate my existing setup on the new computer. I've just installed Back in Time to generate the backups with, but I don't know which directories to earmark.
I'm not a power user by any means, but I go back to DOS 3.0 so you don't have to dumb it down too terribly either.
I appreciate any help that's offered. I'm a freelancer and my computer hosts my business, so I want to do this right.
I've been around here since summer 2007, and haven't posted much because I can usually find what I want. Forgive me for covering what must be well-trodden ground, but I'm reluctant to try pulling the information I need from multiple threads of different vintage.
I'm currently running Lucid on an elderly Celeron-powered Optiplex GX 270. It runs... adequately. I'll shortly be inheriting an HP DV-9000-series laptop, which I will be setting up with a clean install of Lucid.
My question is, how do I go about transferring my files and such to the new system? I don't begrudge the time involved in re-installing my programs, but if possible I'd like to replicate my existing setup on the new computer. I've just installed Back in Time to generate the backups with, but I don't know which directories to earmark.
I'm not a power user by any means, but I go back to DOS 3.0 so you don't have to dumb it down too terribly either.
I appreciate any help that's offered. I'm a freelancer and my computer hosts my business, so I want to do this right.