Moving to New Machine... also upgrade to 64bit. What steps?

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Published on 2011-01-08T13:57:39Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 14:59 UTC
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I am about to move to a new Lenovo X201 from current X61. Current setup has separate \home, separate swap file, also separate \Data partition. Am currently running 10.04 32 bit. Am considering running 64 bit on new machine because I will now have 8 GB of RAM. And would like to also move to 10.10.

Ideally I would like preserve as much of my current setup as possible...

New machine has Win7 on it, but will blow that away, as I've made a clonezilla copy of it, and will use VirtualBox for when I need Windows.

Can someone suggest a good step by step for me? I'm networked to a NAS and also have plenty of external USB storage in case I need intermediary steps.

So do I set up new machine first with 64bit 10.10, with partition scheme I want? then rsnyc over \home from old machine (over write target home)?

Do I need to upgrade the X61 first to 10.10?

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