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Old 01-13-2004, 12:45 PM   #1
garykuipers
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How to duplicate a Redhat Linux 9.0 Hard Drive


I have a 20MB (source) hard drive with 3 partitions (100MB /boot, 2.5MB /, + a /swp)

I would like to copy this source drive onto several 3.5 MB (target) hard drives in such a way that when I install the target hard drives on new computers these will boot up and perform identically to the source computer.

I saw a "BuildDiskImage" command tutorial. Unfortunately this command is not in the source hard drive. If this is the way to do the copy please let me know what package contains this command. The installation I did was custom and minimal.

Is there a simple way to copy one hard disk to another?

Thanks!
Gary
 
Old 01-13-2004, 01:04 PM   #2
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Old 01-14-2004, 05:44 PM   #3
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RE: hard drives

Is it a laptop or desktop unit? Is it going into the same machine? These two things make a HUGE difference.

Different machines take fresh installs. With redhat, you can create a kickstart file. This will give you a very fast and automated install for any computer you launch set up on. The kickstart file goes on a floppy. Every setting and package you want as well as automated partitioning and other scripting is performed to your exact specifications. You can get it via rpm. It is not that large, I'm pretty sure of that.

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