Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-27 Thread Tommy Bongaerts
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:11:09AM -0700, Robert Robert wrote: >Dear All, >I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk >that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Aniruddha a écrit : On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:22 -0400, David Clymer wrote: Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. Clonezilla allows you to pick the method you want it to use. One of those methods is partimage. Other

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:22 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still > > prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. > > Clonezilla allows you to pick the method you want it to use. One of > those methods is partimage. Others are dd

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Neil
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Dear All, >> > > I w

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Sharninder
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Dear All, >> > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk >

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:49 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > > that cont

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Aniruddha wrote: > -Boot livecd > -Run cfdisk > -Format partitions > -Unpack tar > -Chroot > -Adjust config files > -Run grub-install > > This takes about 30 minutes. Alternatively if one really want to do bare > metal recovery; image products from Paragon and Acronis are the best > choice. >

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 23:14 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > I was wondering ho

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: [...] > If you can plug the hard disk of the "clean pc" into your existing > system, then I recommend dd. If you need to manually move the data > between the computers then partimaged is handier. If both computers > exists in

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > > th

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact co

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Larry Irwin
I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? thanks

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:11 -0700, Robert Robert wrote: > Dear All, > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard > disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an > exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free > software can I u

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Sharninder
> I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use > for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? >

how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Robert Robert
Dear All, I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about thi