Duplicating a Fedora PC

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I've used the Ghost with Norton 2003, to do disk copies of 
computers that are setup with Win98/Fedora in dual boot mode, and 
it seems to work fine. With Red Hat 9, it would do the copy, but I 
would have to boot from the rescue disk, and login as root, and 
change to the grub directory, and run the grub command to reset the 
root partition. This can be found at the symantec site, but I don't 
have it handly. I have 20 machines in the lab, and setup one 
machine, did all updates, and then used a cross-over cable to 
connect it to another machine. Then I did multiple copies from those 
two to the others, eventually ended have 8 machines ghosting to 8 
other machines all with cross over cables, made it a very fast 
process. 

On 15 Apr 2004 at 17:07, Chris Kloiber wrote:

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> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:49, Hugh Foster wrote:
> > Bit of a Linux newbie, working up a first Linux box for production users -
> > so far, looks pretty good on PC 1 of 2. Now, if this were a Windows box, I'd
> > DriveImage it and blat it onto the other, tweak the name and logins etc,
> > voila 2 pcs. 
> >  
> > IS there a way to dupe an installation easily, or do I have to slog through
> > all the settings again manually?
> 
> If the drives are identical models, dd can do it easily in rescue mode.
> If not, DriveImage may (if it understands ext3, I haven't heard of that
> product before.) and recent Norton Ghost versions do. GNU parted may
> even do this (it can copy/resize partitions) but I haven't tried
> anything that ambitious with it.
> 
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> Chris Kloiber
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