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Re: Cloning a workstation



On Tuesday, 14.12.2004 at 22:02 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:

> >Partimage certainly works very well.  You can create a bootable CD
> >which (assuming your image fits on a CD) you can use to install your
> >image.  If the image is larger, you can use it across the network.
> >Run partimage daemon on one box, then boot up your unconfigured
> >box(es) with, say, Knoppix; the run partimage and it'll pull in the
> >image.
> >
> >Use it all the time here, imaging Windows boxes and Debian
> >workstations.
> >
> Does it save the mbr as well so you don't have to repair grub after
> imaging?  Ghost 7.5 does not.  :(

You can (separately) save and restore the MBR.  See the docs page at
http://www.partimage.org/doc.en.html

Dave.
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