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Re: cloning bootable hard drive



 On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:09 AM, R Hofland <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 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. 

I would recommend the Clonezilla Live CD :-) 
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