RE: Cloning a workstation

From: Croy, Nathan (NCroy_at_comdata.com)
Date: 12/08/04

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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:42:01 -0600

    > From: Sarunas Burdulis [mailto:sarunas@nospam.net]
    > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:31 AM
    >
    > I need to clone a workstation (which has some custom
    > configuration and
    > scripts added to otherwise basic Sarge/KDE) into another set of
    > absolutely identical hardware (Intel Pentium 4, IDE HD). Just
    > one clone,
    > not a massive install. What tools would you use? Easiest/quickest?
    > Machines are on an Ethernet, have CD/DVD and floppy drives.

    There have been many great suggestions already. Here are two more:

    1.
    I have used mkCDRec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be). I unpack the tarball; cd
    mkcdrec; make test; make and answer a couple of prompts, then wait a while
    (long while). You might want to change the Config.sh, specifically
    SCSIDEVICE, nad BURNCDR. I think the image winds up in /home for some
    reason. Overall, it's not a perfect solution, but works well for me.

    2.
    Also, I recently booted a new box (it has no CD, so I installed a minimal
    system on a small partition using woody boot floppies) by copying over the
    network. I booted the system, partitioned, like the other system, copied
    the filesystems over the network, and installed the bootloader. To copy I
    used something similar to:

    ssh root@william 'tar -C / -clf - .' | tar -C /mnt/root -xvf -

    The -l option to tar tells it to only copy files on the given parition.
    The /mnt/root is the partiton on the local system where you want the file to
    go.
    The syntax may be slightly off, I didn't write it down when I did it. 

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