I tried with mondo and left it! I prefert to make a lvm snapshot from the original system to make a consistent backup, make a tar.gz from that snapshot /. Boot any other machine with PXE, create VGs, LVs, make FS, copy tar.gz from NFS and uncompress tar.gz and install grub. It is pretty fast and works like a charm!! On 10/3/05, Sherrett O. Walker <buznakka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, all. > > I'm cross-posting this message. > > Thanks to some help from a couple of souls on redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx, > I've been able to duplicate my RedHat ES3 installation onto a duplicate > machine. I wanted to post my experience and am open to any answers to > my (sometimes implied) questions. > > So, I decided that I was going to use Mondo to archive one of my ES3 > machines and clone it on a different machine. My machine doesn't have a > CD-W drive, so I backed up to my hard drive, used scp to copy the files > to my laptop, and burned them from there. I put CD 1 in the drive and > rebooted. > > I had a few... hiccups (is the correct spelling of this really > hiccough... dictionary.com <http://dictionary.com> says both are correct: > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hiccough ) along the way. The > restoration told me that my hard drive had a gap, and that a total of > 9KB weren't assigned on two different partitions. Because of this (I > think), I was unable to do a nuke restoration, and had to go with > interactive. I filled the 9KB and kept on my merry way, exchanging > disks along the way, and rebooted when it was all said and done. But > the BIOS told be I had no boot sector (?). > > So, this took some digging. I used my Red Hat disk 1 and went to the > rescue functionality and typed linux rescue at the command prompt. I > did 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' (location of my installation) and > /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda3 (location of /boot). I rebooted, only to > receive a message that the boot process couldn't find the /home > filesystem. Some research led me to modify the /etc/mtab file to match > the source machine's, and then, I got a reboot. It WORKED! > > Questions / Comments: > > RTFM > Do it again. > Do it step by step as you work > Stop if you get stuck (or don't know your boot partition) and figure out > what you've done > Keep a log > Why doesn't mondo just copy all of the boot stuff/ grub.conf file and > all that? > Why doesn't mondo copy the mtab file? > > Thanks for the help, and I wish you well in your mondo adventures. > > SOW > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
