On 12/15/2014 03:26 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
Going from an older CPU to a newer one shouldn't cause problems, and going from a newer one to an older one is fine as long as it's not extremely old. You might want to check and make sure that whatever kernel is being used on Source 2 will support the CPU on Target. Memory shouldn't ever cause problems, unless a machine simply doesn't have enough. Dual booting also shouldn't be that difficult. I'm not sure if LILO automatically picks up on your Windows install and adds it as a boot option, but I know GRUB does. The only issue is the hard drive space. Going from a smaller hard drive to a larger one isn't a problem (dd the partition contents, then use the appropriate resize program such as resize2fs), but going from a larger partition to a smaller one is harder. Your best bet is to grab another hard drive (well, you'll need one to boot off of anyway so you can copy partitions around), copy the partition there, resize it down to the minimum, copy it to the final disk, then resize it up to the full partition size. Lastly, install the bootloader.On 12/09/2014 11:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:You should probably provide more details about the installation to be cloned and hardware where the clone will be used. Kind regards, AndreiHere it is:'Source 1' hardware: Desktop CPU Celeron 400 MHz, RAM 224 MB, HDD 21 GB (a half of a 41 GB ATA Maxtor) 'Source 1' OS: Debian 6.0.10 (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Xfce), LILO dual-boot with Windows XP'Source 2' hardware: Compaq Presario CQ56 CPU Pentium Dual-Core T4500 2.30 GHz, RAM 1.37 GB, HDD 320 GB (encrypted LVM)'Source 2' OS: only Debian 7.7 (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Xfce), LILO'Target' hardware: Desktop CPU AMD Athlon 1.1 GHz, RAM 512 MB, HDD 41 GB (a half of a 82 GB ATA Maxtor)'Target' OS: LILO for dual-boot with Windows XP Regards, M.