At ByteWorks we've been cloning machines like so: 1) do a generic install on one machine (source machine) 2) power down and remove the source drive 3) put the source drive on a separate IDE bus in the target machine 4) boot the target machine from the CD with Knoppix 5) use dd to image the source drive onto the target drive 6) power down and remove the source drive 7) power up the target machine and make some minor adjustments
Currently, the generic install is a dual-boot Windows XP and Debian Linux. So far that cloning process has worked pretty well. The only time it has not is when the target drive is smaller than the source, but we've been able to work around that. Improvements in the future would be to use an external USB/FW drive or a network connection. But for now this works well, or at least good enough. Anyone have any words of wisdom or suggestions, perhaps alternatives that we are overlooking? We have glanced at G4U and G4L, but they seem to be pretty front ends to what we are currently doing with Knoppix. Or are we missing something? Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
