cloning ubuntu on different hardware systems (x86)

[Patrick Siglin]

the problem I had was cloning a 6 gig drive to a 160gig drive. It still only 
showed the 160 as being a 6gig. I used qtparted and was unable to expand the 
rest out. Is there a trick to this?

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:24:48 +0100, hagen van rissenbeck wrote
> Hi list, hi Michael,
> 
> Michael R. Head wrote:
> 
> /snip
> 
> >>That's why I would like to clone from a master pc in the future...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>My problem:
> >>-----------
> >>
> >>I guess that cloning 1:1 won't work because of different hardware 
> >>components.
> > 
> > 
> > Mostly it should work, though you may have to reconfigure X if they have
> > a differnt video card and possibly tweak the network settings.
> 
> That's enough? Seems to be easier than I thought ;-)
> 
> /snip
> 
> >>3. Cloning the partitions with partimage, g4u or something else (what 
> >>tool would be your choice?)
> > 
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/hda | bzip2 -c > /path/to/image/file
> 
> yepp, good idea, standard tool ;-)
> 
> > Or, using nbd on the remote machine:
> > dd if=/dev/nbd of=/dev/hda
> > 
> > I wrote about doing it here:
> > http://community.livejournal.com/ubuntu_users/22528.html
> > 
> > :-)
> 
> Thanks a lot. I'll try it out.
> 
> Yesterday, I researched also mondo-rescue,rsync and rembo. That's, 
> what others use in (perhaps) similar cases...
> 
> Results will be reported.
> 
> Hagen
> 
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