Are you sure the cloned WinXP works? I thought there was some MS protection against that.
On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > > 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? ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
