Just to chip in. I recommend using clonezilla. Just make a cd or bootable USB with the iso from their website. Then boot the machine with it and follow the instructions.
It lets you direct disk copy although it is more useful to image to a network drive or whatever else you fancy. I normally use it with SSH but you can also use Windows shares if you prefer. Regards, Wayne On 15 Nov 2017 21:15, "Cowboy" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2017 03:22:05 pm Rob Landry wrote: > > the second time, I had to reinstall > > the boot loader on the cloned drive, after which it too worked. > > If you're using CentOS or RHEL... > > Boot the install CD for a version LOWER than you're running. > ie: if you're running 6.8 using a 6.4 CD it works just dandy ! > Tell it to upgrade. One of the options will be to re-do the boot loader. > Take the upgrade/reinstall boot loader option. > It will "upgrade" ( do nothing ) in a few seconds, install the boot > loader, and you should be good to go. > > -- > Cowboy > > http://cowboy.cwf1.com > > Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at > once. > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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