<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Skowvron</b> <<a href="mailto:michaels@penguincentral.org">michaels@penguincentral.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Romano wrote:<br><br>> Can I just basically clone the<br>> working system and put it on the bare machine?<br><br>Absolutely.<br><br>Clone by your favorite method -- tar, cpio, dump, xfsdump, etc. You<br>can either move the target disk to the source system and go disk to
<br>disk, or go across the net by using a rescue CD or something like<br>Knoppix go get the target machine booted. Once cloned, just edit the<br>hostname and networking parameters.</blockquote><div><br>
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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?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Chris<br>
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