How to duplicate EasyOS setup?

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How to duplicate EasyOS setup?

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I have been using EasyOS Dunfell as my main OS recently. It has been a little more complex to get set up than previous puppies and Quirkys, but right now I have it set up just right. Printing and scanning works. Sound is ok. I have ProtonVPN set up and working. I have a few other apps added that I use on a regular basis and the dependencies installed.

It's working so well I would like to install it on my other laptop as well.... but I do cringe at the thought of starting from scratch. So how to duplicate it?

At first I thought remastering would be the way to go. I tried this a couple of times. I swapped out the remastered easy.sfs for the original and performed a frugal install on the new laptop. However, X fails to start. It is not the hardware itself, because if I perform a frugal install of a new 3.1 installation X boots without any trouble at all.

Next I thought if I copied my whole EasyDunfell folder from the old laptop to new maybe that would work. However, this just boots up a completely new EasyOS session that is running completely in ram.

With puppies I used to just copy the savefile and I was good to go. Curious what the best way to procede with Easy would be.

I'll keep chipping away at it.

Thanks.

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Re: Duplicate EasyOS setup

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The equivalent of the puppy savefile is the "save folder":

mnt/wkg/.session

Copy it to a usb-stick with EasyOS installed:

# cp -a mnt/wkg/.session /mnt/<usb stick partition2>/DOTsession

remove file 'fsckme.flg' from DOTsession folder.

Bootup the usb-stick on the other PC, and copy the folder to overwrite the .session in the other PC:

# cp -a -f --remove-destination /mnt/<partition2>/DOTsession/* <path to .session>/.session/

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Re: Duplicate EasyOS setup

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BarryK wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:40 pm

The equivalent of the puppy savefile is the "save folder":

mnt/wkg/.session

Copy it to a usb-stick with EasyOS installed:

# cp -a mnt/wkg/.session /mnt/<usb stick partition2>/DOTsession

remove file 'fsckme.flg' from DOTsession folder.

Bootup the usb-stick on the other PC, and copy the folder to overwrite the .session in the other PC:

# cp -a -f --remove-destination /mnt/<partition2>/DOTsession/* <path to .session>/.session/

Worked perfectly!

Thanks!

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