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Subject: Re[2]: PC Cloning : Advice and help needed
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Thanks Johan. 

Any specific steps for cloning between a desktop and a laptop? 
Read through dd and rdist and basically they clone the hard 
drives in the same PC....

f.johan.beisser> > Any help and advice would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in
f.johan.beisser> > advance!
f.johan.beisser> 
f.johan.beisser> you can "clone" the disk a few ways. the more popular ones are rdist(1),
f.johan.beisser> tar(1), and dd(1). these are all fairly well documented.
f.johan.beisser> 
f.johan.beisser> i would HIGHLY suggest you dig up more information on your graphics
f.johan.beisser> program first, and see what libraries, dependancies, and binaries it
f.johan.beisser> depends on before you do anything. digging up information about what
f.johan.beisser> you're messing with, before you play around with copying it is vital, and
f.johan.beisser> may save you quite a bit of grief.
f.johan.beisser> 
f.johan.beisser> -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+
f.johan.beisser>   http://caustic.org/~jan                      jan@caustic.org
f.johan.beisser>     "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse
f.johan.beisser>          of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche
f.johan.beisser> 



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