<quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo">

> Simon Wong wrote:
> 
> > Yes, one of the two main things that are not portable with Ubuntu
> 
> Sorry, my problem had nothing to do with Ubuntu, but was a direct result
> of me cloning the disk of a working Ubuntu install and then booting a
> whole bunch of other machines from the cloned disks.

Yeah, what Simon meant was that these are hardware-specific things that are
set during install/use, which make an Ubuntu install harder to 'port' to
different hardware... one of the things that has traditionally been a great
strength of Debian (in particular, but also some other distros).

A cute way of 'cloning' Ubuntu machines is the OEM installer, originally
built for box pushers, but very useful for any disk cloning mass install
requirement.

- Jeff

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