I just thought with the discussion the past few days of Sysprep before or after cloning, that I'd take a moment to jot down my favorite cloning app, and it's completely free: G4L, AKA Ghost 4 Linux. It's an ISO that you download, burn to a blank CD and then pop into a machine to use to create an image on a server (via FTP, by the way - no proprietary transport, but no multicast, either) or copy disk-to-disk.
It may not work as well as the paid-for product when you're trying to create a whole office of cloned machines, but if you need to image up a new machine quickly, this is a darn nice tool. It'll clone virtually any O/S or file system, as it does a bit-for-bit copy of the data. It can also image up just a partition. The ISOs can always be found on SourceForge, but here's a link to the project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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