Duplicating a Fedora PC

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:57, Don Levey wrote:
> Andy wrote:
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> > On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:49, Hugh Foster wrote:
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> >> IS there a way to dupe an installation easily, or do I have to slog
> >> through all the settings again manually?
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> > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would be using dd.
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> > If you can come up on a floppy or CD 'recovery' distro that does not
> > require your source HDD to be mounted, or, you can come up in single
> > user mode with the source HDD mounted as read-only, you can easily
> > use dd to dump the source drive to the destination drive sector by
> > sector. 
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> Hmm... I'm looking at just this sort of a solution for a one-time mirror of my server.  When FC2 comes out I want to try an upgrade (so I can keep all of my configuration in place), but want a fallback if something fails.  I plan to get a drive which is the same make/model as the one I have now, so dd may be a good solution.  The man page is not too helpful for me; is there a write-up toward which someone can point me?
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Craig