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From: daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:12:28
Message-Id: 3ac129341002212349j4eef1229p3bc266d29ef054ca@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk by Harry Putnam
1 On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk
3 > to a newly created one.
4
5 you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in
6 /proc and /dev you don't want.
7
8 This could avoid any problems of your rsync options. Then in a chroot
9 reinstall grub on the partition.
10
11 I never tried this, but to my mind it should work, and it's faster than rsync.
12
13 ~daid

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