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From: daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:49:03 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ac129341002212349j4eef1229p3bc266d29ef054ca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbpdotge.fsf@newsguy.com>

On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
> to a newly created one.

you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in
/proc and /dev you don't want.

This could avoid any problems of your rsync options.  Then in a chroot
reinstall grub on the partition.

I never tried this, but to my mind it should work, and it's faster than rsync.

~daid



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19 20:34 [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk Harry Putnam
2010-02-19 20:58 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-02-19 21:25 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-20  9:50   ` Xi Shen
2010-02-22  7:49 ` daid kahl [this message]
2010-02-25 17:59   ` daid kahl
2010-02-26  1:06     ` Stroller
2010-02-26 11:59       ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 15:46         ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-26 16:00           ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-26 18:13             ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-26 23:25             ` Neil Bothwick

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