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Re: cloning bootable hard drive



 R Hofland <[hidden email]> writes: 

> I'm not having a lot of luck doing quick clones of my installs from 
> one bootable hard drive to create another bootable drive. I haven't 
> tried all my options yet but I thought it wise to ask the community 
> for advice. 
> 
> Again, it is Suse 10.3 using the Grub boot loader which resides in 
> the root partition, but I'd like to be able to do this with any 
> flavor of Linux and booter. A bootable CD with appropriate software 
> to quickly create a bootable drive with swap, /, etc. and then copy 
> all of the files from the original drive is best. I have Acronis but 
> it has not worked so well for my Suse installs. 


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