Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Denis <denis.becker at mnsu.edu> wrote: >> Hi - I have a NFS/NIS server environment running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell >> Optiplex 240. I would like to back it up and then move it to a new >> machine. > > You don't mention the type of the new machine. If it is not identical > hardware you are probably better off installing a new copy of CentOS > on the new machine and then using rsync to copy over any needed data. <snip> At the very least, you're going to have to rebuild the initrd. mark, who missed that on the upgrade he's working on at the moment