Re: Cloning a workstation
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.
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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