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Background:

  • want to move from 32-bit to 64-bit environment (taking advantage of >4GB RAM)
  • bought new HDD and installed new OS
  • mounted old HDD as a secondary device

Question:

  • How can I determine all services I had installed and running on the old system?
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warren
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  • this is related to my previous [question about packages](http://askubuntu.com/q/293100/3544) – warren May 09 '13 at 15:56
  • the question shown as a duplicate ([How do you get a list of all starting services?](http://askubuntu.com/q/57909/3544)) is interesting - but not at all a duplicate. That question does not deal with how to find what *were* the services running before a new install (as this question clearly indicates). That question is about what services *are* running. – warren May 09 '13 at 17:52

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Try: 

service --status-all

or:

ls /etc/init.d
Seth
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  • the `service` command won't work - that will show me what is running *now* ... not what *was* running :) – warren May 09 '13 at 18:50
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You can use the chroot command on your partition on which you had old OS. Once you're done with chroot, do anything you want like you are using your old OS again. you can see list of installed packages or you can see the content of /etc/init.d to see list of services.

To do chroot you can can see up to 6th step in http://alok.fossguru.in/content/rescuing-system-chroot

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you can list all the service with sudo initctl list | sort. Give your password after typing the command.

hope that helps.

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    if I had not already installed the new OS, yes - but without `chroot`, I don't think this would work – warren May 13 '13 at 15:23