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 a fast lan, I guess you could just > > At source > - export / from the source over NFS > At target > - boot a live cd on the target, > - mount source.ip:/ /mnt > - dd if=/mnt/dev/sda (or whatever hard disk on source is) of=/dev/sda > If you are on a fast LAN, I'd recommend using netcat with dd instead of mounting / over NFS. You'll have much less overhead and can determine your own buffer size (via dd's blocksize parameter). Check the archives, I think we discussed this just a few weeks ago, or just google "dd clone netcat" or something along those line. Cheers, Elijah -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/
