On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:08:44 -0400
James Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Forgot to add that you need to create mount points such as /proc,
> > maybe /dev, /sys.  And I think you may need to exclude them from tar
> > when creating the image file. 
> Per,
> Thank you for the answer.
> That is a really complicated process, I imagine that you are telling me this 
> needs to be done to each recipient? could it be set up as a pxe boot task?
> What about bit transfer type solutions like Ghost? Is there no way of setting 
> a running system back to the hardware discovery process?
> could one re-invoke YaST-install at the last stage (after first reboot, when 
> the system believes it has all its files in place?

A couple of things:
1. Take a look at CloneZilla http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/
2. AFAIK, the virtual file systems, such as /proc are strictly virtual
and are created on the fly. 



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