It is a running gentoo system in this case But it doesnt make a difference to me. I want to know generally.
anyway I will try what everyone wrote here and we'll see how it goes. Thanks again. On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > > Hi All , > > > > I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy > > it to another physical machine , while the original system is still > > running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to > > shutdown the system are not acceptable ) > > > > So , someone told me to try just "tar" the whole system to the other > > machine and "untar" it there. > > > > The question is how can I do that ? what are the correct attributes and > > flags ? > > > > Or maybe someone have other ideas ? > > > > Thanks > > > > Benyamin > Could you be more specific about the destination machine? Is it already > running some Linux distro, or is it a new machine with no OS? If it's > the latter, you'll have to be more careful with the boot procedure, > kernel options, etc. > > -Tim > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
