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Re: How to clone a system easily?



on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:13:22PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie (gguthrie@mum.edu) wrote:
> I have a working system, and want to upgrade the MotherBoard.
> 
> I'd could just move disks, but would rather just "clone it, to the new 
> system. How, most easily?
> 
> Both are on a loca network.
> 
> For example, boot the new system to CDrom, and dd the disks over?

dd works for *absolutely* *identical* systems.  Otherwise it's not
recommended.

You can tar across slightly different disk geometries.

My preference is to do a minimal base system installation, then run:

    $ dpgk --get-selections > file

...on the old system followed by

    $ dpkg --set-selections < file
    $ apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

...on the new one.

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