> I was able to go from a blank slate to a copy of my desktop config on my new laptop without doing anything more than sticking in a USB drive, booting up and g

> I was able to go from a blank slate to a copy of my desktop config on my new laptop without doing anything more than sticking in a USB drive, booting up and grabbing an IP address from said laptop. ... And all that stuff you did via SSH after grabbing the IP address?