Re: Duplicating a Fedora PC

["John A. Smith" <jnasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> > "Reboot the PC and try it again"
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