Naive Question:

[clintin at linuxmail.org]

I work in a Univ Lab ( running ubuntu 11.04) and for the summer I would like to work from home, where internet services

are either slow or unpredicatable.

SO instead of taking the entire machiine (  which Univ will not allow), how should I copy the entire software on my 
external harddrive which will copy everything ( I mean everything ) so that I can use the machine exactly as my 
original machine in lab. ( All tools, software ( system )). I mean I should not be able to see the difference in any case.

Assuming you are not violating any licensing with the software installed on the machine (University owned/purchased), you could image the hard drive using Clonezilla (or other imaging software) and be sure to take an image of the entire drive.  If you store the image on an external USB drive, you could take that image home and then restore the image to the hard drive on the computer at home, assuming it is equal in size or larger than the HD in the computer at the University.  I haven't tried this lately with Ubuntu but I have done it with other distro's and it has work flawlessly, the only issue might be video, especially with 11.04 but you can bring it up in recovery and fix the video, usually.  By doing this, you avoid having to reinstall software or do any configuration and the resulting machine would be identical to the machine at the University.

Clint



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