Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-03 Thread Ronald V. Vazquez
Hello list: Thank you all very much for all your suggestions. / Ronald Vincent Vazquez (301) 540-9394 Home (240) 401-9192 Cell Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV we've used 3 different ways: a program called systemimager (works great, but is made for

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread jan werner
Ronald Vincent Vazquez schrieb: Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. Thanks, RV Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 May 2006 14:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. I simply tar up the whole box (except what I do not want like log files and such). After booting the other box

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
What about quickpkg'ing all the installed packages and emerging them as binaries on the new system? I think if you copy your /etc to the new box first it should work just fine. I wonder if anyone has tried this. Anyways, this really depends on how much you want to clone the system, and how

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, can't you? Alexander Skwar -- Love is not enough, but it sure helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote: Do you mean to make one install then copy everything over to a new system? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dale: Yes, let say that I install a machine with all my basic software and want to set up a second machine without having to reinstall. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
For plain device cloning you can read: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm and http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html Using gzip definately saves a lot of space if your partitions aren't completely full. On 5/2/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files, can't you? Alexander Skwar -- Love is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Jeff
In case anyone's wondering: http://blinkeye.ch/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page There, look at the link for the GNU/Linux backup script. That's what I use here at work, and I'm able to clone a p4 machine with full KDE in about 1 hour. Pay *very* close attention to the '--excludes' in the script,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Mick
On 02/05/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: partimage (stores each partition as a file) also requires a storage system that can take 2gb files I might be wrong, but I think you can make partimage split the files,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread gjiro
you might check out: DAR (Disk ARchive) - http://dar.linux.free.fr/ and SaraB - http://sarab.sourceforge.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Fernando Ferrari
This is a excelent article http://es.geocities.com/linuxeando/partimage.html Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com -Mensaje original- De: Ronald V. Vazquez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 02 de Mayo de 2006 10:19 a.m. Para:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Walter
for (nearly) identical hardware i use the following commands (from a live distro like knoppix) // create compressed and splitted image dd if=/dev/sd? | gzip -c | split -b 699m - /space/for/imagefiles/image.gz. don't forget that last dot // verify cat