RE: Installing five identical systems...

[Larry Snyder <larrys lexis-nexis com>]

Partition the disk and mount it, then:

cd /source-mount-point
tar cvf - * | (cd /dest-mount-point ; tar xvf -)

Works great as long as they're parallel and not hierarchical to each
other.
-ls-



Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> > > It's not good just to copy or dd from the disk the system is running on,
> > 
> > But it does work; fsck the result immediately, and you'll see if you had a
> > fatal problem or not.
> 
> I've tried it.....not always with good results.
> 
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