Steve Maser wrote:
Hi all...
User here asked me about the possibility of setting up a "triple boot"
MacPro after 10.5 comes out.
I can "clone" XP (and Vista) using imaging products like Ghost/Acronis
(we have a master image we put on the Windows boxes and I've
successfully used Ghost to move XP into a "bootcamp" partition with no
problems...)
I can clone OSX (using Carbon Copy Cloner or "Disk Utility") between
multiple Macs with no problem.
Is there a way to move an installed Red Hat image from one hardware box
to another? Or is this not feasible/recommended?
It's perfectly possible, and the zFolk do it all the time on their
zSeries computers.
I've done it on occasion when a system dies or otherwise needs
upgrading; I copy (or move) the hdd from one system to another.
The main problem is sorting out network interfaces:-)
I've not yet found the need to install once, copy to many.
I'd not use the mondo rescue stuff, I've seen the code and it looks a
little fragile to me.
systemimager is a package developed for the purpose. I think it's at
sf.net, but google knows.
One can also copy using any of these
dd (with some limitations)
tar & similar such as cpio, afio (not standard, but basically cpio with
some improvements).
there's some fiddling with each: dd works best if disks are identical
but is okay. with fiddling, if the destination's bigger), the others
require pre partitioning and formatting but you can change filesystems
and to/from lvm.
For NTFS I use the ntfs tools, ntfsclone etc, from sf. It's included in
Knoppix and some other live CD systems.
I can set up "rEFIt" (http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) so that I can have
3 different bootable partitions on the Mac, but haven't ever considered
if I could move a RedHat install from one computer to another
(potentially where the "master image" is on a Windows machine and the
target would then be a MacPro). Our RedHat installs are currently so
few and far between that we only ever do them from the master .isos
I'm unfamiliar with refit, and I've not yet played with efi partitions.
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Cheers
John
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