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VsMaX
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 Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject: CAn i do clone of my system? |
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Hey. I've got a stable system and i wish to clone it on anthoner partition for making experiments there because i need to have one system stable. Is some option instead of installing one time more gentoo? I tryed to copy my system, but it didn't work.
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Keruskerfuerst
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Just boot from a Livecd.
Mount the partitions.
Then use cp -ar /source /destination.
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grunthus
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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check out partimage:
You'll need to boot your shiny new system off a live CD so as to leave the harddisk(s) untouched. Then you can use partimage to create disk image files. Once you have the image files, you can 'restore' them onto partitions of a new harddisk.
Alternatively (still via liveCD), you could maybe use dd to spray bits from one harddisk to another (never tried that yet)
Let us know how it goes.
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Bones McCracker
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Plain old parted has a command (mkpartfs) which will clone an existing partition. |
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nixnut
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
Not about getting gentoo installed.
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mikegpitt
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| Keruskerfuerst wrote: | Just boot from a Livecd.
Mount the partitions.
Then use cp -ar /source /destination. |
I was never sure if that woudl work, although in theory it should. At some point I will need to try it out. |
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Keruskerfuerst
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| mikegpitt wrote: | | Keruskerfuerst wrote: | Just boot from a Livecd.
Mount the partitions.
Then use cp -ar /source /destination. |
I was never sure if that woudl work, although in theory it should. At some point I will need to try it out. |
I usually use cp -ar to backup my fine running Gentoo system. |
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