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   Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (ivan_ivanovich@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:03:19 JST Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov
   I have a friend who wants to install Manjaro on a new disk and he's wondering whether he can do so while still booted from his already existent Manjaro partition, to keep settings and so on, instead of having to create a bootable USB drive.
   Is this doable?
   
   Anime girl for your troubles, good sirs.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:03:37 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @Ivan_Ivanovich in theory yes but it would be a massive pain in the ass
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:05:17 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @Ivan_Ivanovich you probably can't do fresh, the way I'm thinking of it is literally cloning the existing disk to the new thing, copy rootfs, enable swap, etc etc
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     Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (ivan_ivanovich@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:05:30 JST Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov

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     @kirby That's what I'm telling him but he's stubborn
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:08:03 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @Ivan_Ivanovich if you really want to do fresh it would be better worth your time to make a USB stick for a Manjaro installer and just hitting install to the new disk, because it would just do the same thing as doing this all manually if you were to somehow get fresh install files onto a root partition
     
     Does he not have a flash drive lying around or something
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:11:12 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @Ivan_Ivanovich >nigga doesn't have ready to go dot files
     ngmi...
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     Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (ivan_ivanovich@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:11:13 JST Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov

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     @kirby I think he thinks creating the bootable stick and doing it that way will take him longer to get back to his current configurations
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:13:27 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @Ivan_Ivanovich it actually sounds like he doesn't want to do a fresh install then, it would take some time but copying rootfs and stuff isn't super complicated. Doable but a pain
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     Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (ivan_ivanovich@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 12:27:19 JST Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov

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     @kirby Thank you, I will tell him
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