[K12OSN] Cloning Fedora mailproxy box

[Marty Willie]

Hi all,

I'm what you would call a newbie to Linux.... My director of technology and Linux guru just accepted a position at Google and left the rest of us to tend to the Linux farm.

Mailproxy1 is currently running Fedora Core 5, and my objective is to create an image of this machine before it inevitably tips over and we have to put the pieces back together - Based on the tech dept’s current Linux knowledge, this would be a disaster. 

We have located an image of this machine from two years ago, however when we recently attempted to pull this image down onto what we had hoped would become mailproxy2, the machine would not boot. Can you image a Linux box running Fedora? If so, does the image have to be pushed down onto an identical set of hardware, as is the case with a Windows box?

Thanks in advance for any help you can supply.
Marty