On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <robertrobert93@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to > > > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use > > > for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? > > > > I highly recommend Clonezilla-live. it makes cloning to/from any sort > > of storage very simple. You can clone to an attached usb drive, to a > > network drive via nfs, samba, or ssh. (http://www.clonezilla.org/) > > > > Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still > prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. To tar / will not - partition the disk - make a partition bootable - put the right files on the right partitions unless the partitions are - created manually - mounted at the correct mountpoints. The OP mentioned a "clean pc with no os at all", which sounds much like an unpartitioned disk, on which tar / will not work at all (since there is no partitions and no filesystem to untar to). If you can plug the hard disk of the "clean pc" into your existing system, then I recommend dd. If you need to manually move the data between the computers then partimaged is handier. If both computers exists in a fast lan, I guess you could just At source - export / from the source over NFS At target - boot a live cd on the target, - mount source.ip:/ /mnt - dd if=/mnt/dev/sda (or whatever hard disk on source is) of=/dev/sda (This tip is untested though). -- Linux amin 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i586 GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E
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