On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 13:50, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 05:16:26 +0200, Oliver Fuchs
> <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running a debian woody box for a long time now on my laptop.
> > I want to install it now with the (nearly) same configuration on my PC.
> > Can I transport the laptop system (for example via tar) to my PC or won't
> > this work.
we routinely clone PCs running RedHat using by doing (almost) a simple
cp -ax. we just set up our partitions as required and do a cp -ax like
so ...
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#!/bin/bash
CWD=`pwd`
mkswap -f /dev/hdc1
mke2fs -j -L / /dev/hdc2
mke2fs -j -L /home /dev/hdc3
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc2 /mnt/clone
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc4 /mnt/clone/home
cp -axv / /mnt/clone
cp -axv /home /mnt/clone
cd ${CWD}
umount /mnt/clone/home
umount /mnt/clone
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if you want to make it bootable (when connected as a primay master) then
you have to muck around with grub or lilo to get it going. I haven't
done it with grub, but lilo used to involve doing a chroot, and
installing lilo on the second drive. the lilo.conf was set up so that it
assumed the drive was a primary master and so was not bootable until
connected properly.
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chroot /mnt/clone
sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.clone
exit
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Cheers
Blake Swadling
Senior Software Engineer
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