on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:58AM -0700, Scott Fraser (sfraser@myra.com) wrote: > Bill Fowler wrote: > > > > I want to replicate my Debian system onto a number of other PCs, not all of > > which have the same size hard drive. Is there a good way to make an image > > of a partition(s) and replicate to other PCs. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bill Fowler > > > Good Morning Bill, > > Norton Ghost works nicely for this. Just make sure you make a smaller > "default" install on the first system. If you don't want to use Ghost, > the following is a good link taken from the SGI Sys-Admin manual. > > http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/disksfiles.html#CLONE > > Just ignore the SGI/Irix specific stuff. The beauty of this is, is it > allows you to do disk cloning via a network (NFS). Just make sure that > you have all the permissions and exports set-up correctly. Another > network capable method would be to use rsync. With rsync you could even > do it securely (via SSH) to remote systems. > > Cheers and hope this helps. > Scott Ghost is *not* a solution to use when moving between disks of different geometries (sizes). For replicating a Debian package selection, use the dpkg --get-selections / --set-selections method(s) described above. For tranferring other content, tar, cpio, afio, rsync, and related methods are suggested. I usually go with plain old tar. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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