Re: Duplicating a Fedora PC

I know several people who have used g4u (ghost 4 unix) for harddisk cloning with Linux. It is supposed to be work with all filesystems, and if the machines are identical it should work as long as you have access to an ftp server. Best of all it's free.

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

- j a s

Bob Shaffer wrote:

Boot the second computer with a rescue cd, create a partition table using
fdisk, format all partitions (using mkfs.ext3, mkswap, etc..), export the
file system on the original using NFS, mount the exported file system on
the new PC, and copy all of the files to the appropriate partitions.  Set
the partition's labels using e2label as "/boot", "/", etc.  Run
"grub-install '(hd0)'" on the new PC (or "lilo" if you use lilo).  Reboot
the new computer and you should be done.

Hugh Foster said:

Bit of a Linux newbie, working up a first Linux box for production users -
so far, looks pretty good on PC 1 of 2. Now, if this were a Windows box,
I'd
DriveImage it and blat it onto the other, tweak the name and logins etc,
voila 2 pcs.

IS there a way to dupe an installation easily, or do I have to slog
through
all the settings again manually?

Best regards,

Hugh Foster
System Support Analyst
Servisair (UK) Ltd.
hugh.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.servisair.com
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