On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: > Hello all: > > I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. > Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. > > Thanks, > RV we've used 3 different ways: a program called systemimager (works great, but is made for redhat and getting it to work on gentoo was fairly non-trivial) what i call a "stage 4", install the system, then make a tarball of the whole thing (requires a storage medium that can store huge files) partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take > 2gb files
of those, the systemimager is the only one you can really do a pxeboot and install from. but as I said, it requires some work and an infrastructure (including an image server and dhchp server you control) -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
