updated from time to time
one thing was a resounding success however, maybe for a first time in my
case:
After having minimally tweaked a desktop installation to a usable state
i migrated it to my laptop with *dd* (ALL my system partitions are of
ALWAYS exactly the same size and I use ONLY device-names, ONLY grub-0.97
and all linux installs use a standardized 'vmlinuz' kernel reference.
So THE ONLY THING I had to do following the copyover was to edit
etc/fstab and boot it. Wonderful!
I'd like to see windows swing like this :-))))