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3月初的时候，我有听说Ubuntu推出了一项迁移助手的项目，该程序集成在即将发布的Ubuntu 7.04中，该迁移助手的目标人群主要是那些从windows迁移过来的用户，可以帮助他们很快的从Windows的工作环境转换到Ubuntu的Linux工作环境中来。但是我才开始使用的时候发行，该程序还有许多bug，根本就没有办法使用。但是现在好多了，主要的bug已经修复，我重新安装使用，发现效果还不错。 具体安装和使用过程如下： Earlier this month I covered Ubuntu's Migration Assistant, which is one of the features that will be found in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. The migration-assistant is designed to make it very easy for Microsoft Windows converts to jump into the Ubuntu world by automatically transferring files and settings. However, when I originally tried out Ubuntu migration-assistant I had run into a few bugs that ultimately rendered the assistant useless. However, in that post Evan had commented that the two major bugs being recently corrected, so this morning I gave this installation assistant another shot. If you had missed my original blog entry, migration-assistant is automatically run during the Ubuntu installation process from its LiveCD. Microsoft Windows is not the only operating system supported, but you can automatically transport the files and settings from a previous Ubuntu installation or other Linux distributions. I have detailed the workings of migration-assistant a lot more in my original post. A working copy of migration-assistant is available through the daily LiveCD builds of Ubuntu and will also be available in the beta release of Ubuntu 7.04.  When reaching the "Migrate Document and Settings" portion of the install process, attached hard drive(s) will be scanned for supported operating systems to transfer files and settings from. When transferring from Windows XP Professional, the options were Internet Explorer, Wallpaper, User picture, My Documents, My Music, and My Pictures. A new user account also needs to be created for the Ubuntu installation as the destination directory of where these files and settings will be transferred.  With Ubuntu Migration Assistant now functioning, I selected all available items and then continued with the Feisty Fawn daily installation. I was using a daily build of Feisty Fawn that was marked 20060316.1. After completing the installation, rebooting, and logging in to the new transported user account, I was presented with the below configuration.  The migration assistant had worked! As you can see, the Windows installation on the test PC really didn't get much usage from me, so the default Windows XP wallpaper (teletubby hill) was transfered to Ubuntu.  Next I had navigated to ~/Documents using Nautilus and sure enough, Microsoft's My Documents had transferred over (a couple things from TurboTax).  Finally, launching Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and checking out the bookmarks, all of the bookmarks (well, the default Windows ones as I had never touched them) were all transfered successfully from Internet Explorer 6.0. Ubuntu's Migration Assistant had worked in transferring everything over and nothing was lost in the process.  With Ubuntu installed to the hard disk, I proceeded to re-run the Ubuntu LiveCD to see if migration-assistant would recognize the Ubuntu account that evolved from the Windows installation. Sure enough, presented in Migrate Documents and Settings was "michael Ubuntu feisty (development branch) (7.04) (sdb1)." However, the only thing available for transporting was the Mozilla Firefox settings. I had popped the Ubuntu daily LiveCD into a Fedora Core 6 machine, but migration-assistant hadn't detected anything for transfer. Another thing I had noted when having Windows XP on one disk and Ubuntu on another disk in the system, the documents and settings couldn't be transferred from two sources, but only Ubuntu was listed at that point. There are still bugs to be worked out and other features to be added, but Ubuntu Migration Assistant is looking great! |
