Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 21:41:25 schrieb Arthur:
> I wonder if it is safe to migrate a linux installation from a server to
> another by copying the partitions using some imaging software (clonezilla
> for example) & then recompiling just the kernel for the new hardware ?
Yes it is as long as the hardware is of the same type. We did that often at 
work - much faster than installing from CD... We used simply a tar command, 
left out /proc /sys and /dev and created some nodes in /dev by hand. That was 
all on identical machines. A recompile may be required when the processor 
architecture is a different one or something else of the hardware is not 
compatible (ide vs. scsi).
 
> if yes : Will it be the same as Installing the OS from cd ?
Not exactly the same but mostly a well working system (if the source was one).

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Thomas
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