Greetings! > >Well, doing the partitioning manually, you could RSYNC > >the server instead of DD+NETCATing, which probably is faster and > >fails more gracefully. > > But would mean mucking around with the bootloader, which usually is > the point for doing _complete_ disc-images.
True - but DDing a 200GB system disc disc takes quite some time, while manually handling partition+mkfs+lilo plus RSYNCing 1.2GB usually is LOTS faster... Upgrading to servers with newer/bigger discs is also less painful than with imaging. But for mostly uniform hardware or testlabs (with frequent system bashing) it's the leisure-factor that is heavily in favour of DD images, I confess... ;-) Bye Volker Tanger ITK Security -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
