Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real? World ???

From	"25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real? World ???
Date	2022-08-14 23:58 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 8/14/22 8:55 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:04:39 -0500 Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:08:58 -0400, 25B.Z969 wrote:
>>> On 8/13/22 2:14 AM, Bit Twister wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Regardless how you get the vm machine onto real hardware, you still
>>>> have to make hardware difference changes.
>>>
>>>     Well ... Linux does most of it's hardware detection at boot.
>>>     A little different from Win in that respect. This does make
>>>     it easier to port between different hardware environs.
>>
>> I am talking about things like configuring Network Interface Card(s)'s
>> routing, ip address and whatnot, /etc/fstab, dhcpd server...
>>                    
> 
> +1
> 
> The Linux install is likely to "hard code" things like UUIDs for disks and MAC
> addresses for NIC in various files in /etc.  If your target system is on a
> *freshly* create FS, the UUID will be different and of course the NIC will be
> different. 

   Of course ... but that's one of the first adjustments I'd
   make anyway - and it's not too hard, just takes a minute.
   I've no expectations of an instant plug-n-play xfer from
   a VM ... I just don't want it to be TORTURE.

   I still like to use LABELED disks/partitions - and Linux
   can find and properly adjust to those easier than those
   damned UUIDs. LABELs are usually the easiest way to get
   external USB drives to always mount to where you expect
   also, no matter where you plug 'em in. They'll always
   mount to /media/username/diskname (NOW, but not always
   historically as best I recall).

> These are things that are easy to fix with a live rescue system.
> And of course, one has to install the boot loader (grub-install).  These are
> "standard" things one would need to do.  It is also possible that the name of
> the NIC device might be different, due to different hardware.

   Ideally you xfer to a new partition on a machine that already has
   at least one, even if very basic, distro on it. THEN you can use
   that original distro as the tool to make some of those fine
   adjustments to what you just brought over from VM. Then update-grub
   and reset the boot order.

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