Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-22 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, [?] I opened the computer with the new disk and -this time- miraculously it started perfectly. It remains me, now, only the problem of the restore grub. Amazing ... it need to have to have courage Thanks for your interest Angelo On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Chris Murphy

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-22 Thread Angelo Moreschini
thanks for your answers I explain better . recently I started with Linux and, as a beginner, I made many mistakes that forced me to reinstall many times, both fedora that all the SW already installed. That is the way I decided to “invest some time” with clonezilla in order to prevent the

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Angelo Moreschini mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com wrote: However trying to restore on a different (new and virgin) Hard Disk, the operation fails. That's not specific enough. There are probably hundreds or even thousands of reasons for failure. Exactly how does it

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/21/2015 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Angelo Moreschini mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I already used successfully clonezilla to backup my OS (fedora). I did this (only for exercise til now) restoring the OS on the original disk from which I had

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Angelo Moreschini mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I already used successfully clonezilla to backup my OS (fedora). I did this (only for exercise til now) restoring the OS on the original disk from which I had take the clone. Now I wanted to use my

Re: swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@alldigital.com wrote: We do need more info other than the clone operation failed. I have cloned a large number of machines using Clonezilla using virgin drives (CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Winblows). Many had the target drives larger than the

swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

2015-01-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, I already used successfully clonezilla to backup my OS (fedora). I did this (only for exercise til now) *restoring the OS on the original disk from which I had **take** the clone*. Now I wanted to use my clone to restore fedora on a virgin HD. (for security reasons, I did not want restore