Re: Cloning a workstation
Ben Bettin wrote:
I've been looking into doing the same thing at my office. After
researching a bit, Partimage sounded like a nifty program
(http://partimage.org/). I havn't tried it yet, but everything I've
read about it sounded promising.
I believe, however, that the project is dead. There hasn't been an
update in quite a few months. I contacted the package maintainer and
they said they hadn't heard from the developers in a while and
believed the project was dieing. However, they said the program is
very useable and works quite well in most cases.
Meaning updates won't happen too soon, but what is there:
Package partimage
* stable (non-US): Linux/UNIX utility to save partitions in a
compressed image file
0.6.1-13: arm i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
* testing (admin): Linux/UNIX utility to save partitions in a
compressed image file
0.6.4-10: arm hppa i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
* unstable (admin): Linux/UNIX utility to save partitions in a
compressed image file
0.6.4-10: arm hppa i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
certainly works for cloning. For some cases I like mondo better because
that will adjust fstab and lilo, while partimage won't: you'll end up
exactly with what you cloned.
Seems like dd would be an option too? I don't have a lot of
experience with dd, but it seems like a pretty powerful program. You
could use dd to create an image of your drive. Boot up the clone
computer with a knoppix or some other "rescue disk". Then use dd to
write the image from over the network to your new clone. Again, I
havn't done it before but it seems reasonable. Anyone else have any
ideas?
Ben
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:14:56 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@nospam.net> wrote:
Hello,
I need to clone a workstation (which has some custom configuration and
scripts added to otherwise basic Sarge/KDE) into another set of
absolutely identical hardware (Intel Pentium 4, IDE HD). Just one clone,
not a massive install. What tools would you use? Easiest/quickest?
Machines are on an Ethernet, have CD/DVD and floppy drives.
Thanks for any suggestion!
Sarunas
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