RE: Easiest way to clone from one computer to another - OS and files/ data

["Venkatesh, PC" <PC Venkatesh occ treas gov>]

Mary, I cloned my system more than a year or so ago.  Specifically, it was a
single hard drive configured for dual-booting Win95 and Linux [Rh6?].
"Ghosting" programs somehow didn't quite work for me, so I eventually did it
the "hard" but more transparent way.  

Basically, I followed the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To".  This clones one
IDE drive onto another.  You'll need to feel comfortable with partitioning
programs [fdisk or  cfdisk] and LILO [look up the relevant How-To's & other
info].  

As to whether such cloning will work with a CD as the destination & whether
such a CD will boot is well beyond me.  Need to bring in some experts for
that.  Hope this helps. 
PCV

-----Original Message-----
From: Wang, Mary Y [mailto:mary y wang boeing com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 8:59 PM
To: 'redhat-install-list redhat com'
Subject: Easiest way to clone from one computer to another - OS and
files/ data


Hi,
I have one Dell Workstation 530 that has Redhat 7.1 and other files and
data.
What is the easiest way so that I clone the files and OS on that machine to
any other machines?  I heard something about kickstart, but I am not too
sure about it.  Now other machines are different in terms of hardware.  Is
that workable?  I mean the bottom line is that I would like just carry a CD
and then load the CD to other machines and then everything will work.  I am
very new at this.  Please help.   

Mary