copy installation from one machine to another.

binary_dreamer · 09-18-2009, 03:09 AM

hi.
i am running a distro in my laptop and i would like to copy all the installation files to a compact flash (through a cf usb reader), so i could put the cf to another machine and boot over there.
any ideas?

j_jerry · 09-18-2009, 04:56 AM

Your installed filesystem is configured for your current machine's hardware, it wouldn't work properly on another machine

binary_dreamer · 09-18-2009, 05:00 AM

is there a way if a create in a vm a similar hardware emulation to the machine that i want to move the files on?

j_jerry · 09-18-2009, 05:15 AM

however you can backup your entire filesysem using dd command :

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/backup/backup.bak.dd

replace hda1 with your linux partition

lutusp · 09-18-2009, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by binary_dreamer

is there a way if a create in a vm a similar hardware emulation to the machine that i want to move the files on?

Only if the source and destination machines are both virtual, not real. Eventually we need to run real machines.

binary_dreamer · 11-02-2009, 05:06 AM

hi.
at the moment the installation is in visrtualbox and i would like to create an img.gz and put it in /dev/sdb (4.0gb).
here is the system in virtual box.

[root@elastix ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
4.3G 1.7G 2.4G 42% /
/dev/hda1 99M 19M 75M 20% /boot
tmpfs 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
[root@elastix ~]#

any ideas on how to copy it to a cf card and then move it to a different machine?