[wplug] Cloning a machine

Chris Romano romano.chris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 10:14:45 EDT 2005


On 9/1/05, Michael Skowvron <michaels at penguincentral.org> wrote:
> 
> Chris Romano wrote:
> 
> > Can I just basically clone the
> > working system and put it on the bare machine?
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> Clone by your favorite method -- tar, cpio, dump, xfsdump, etc. You
> can either move the target disk to the source system and go disk to
> disk, or go across the net by using a rescue CD or something like
> Knoppix go get the target machine booted. Once cloned, just edit the
> hostname and networking parameters.



Say that I want to use Knoppix and use the network, what is the best way to 
copy the data over? I have never did anything like this before. Would I have 
to partition the disk and format it first with Knoppix?

Thanks,
Chris
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