On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:49, Hugh Foster wrote: > 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? If the drives are identical models, dd can do it easily in rescue mode. If not, DriveImage may (if it understands ext3, I haven't heard of that product before.) and recent Norton Ghost versions do. GNU parted may even do this (it can copy/resize partitions) but I haven't tried anything that ambitious with it. -- Chris Kloiber
