On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk > to a newly created one.
you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in /proc and /dev you don't want. This could avoid any problems of your rsync options. Then in a chroot reinstall grub on the partition. I never tried this, but to my mind it should work, and it's faster than rsync. ~daid
