On 12/15/2014 03:26 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
On 12/09/2014 11:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
You should probably provide more details about the installation to be
cloned and hardware where the clone will be used.
Kind regards,
Andrei
Here it is:
'Source 1' hardware: Desktop CPU Celeron 400 MHz, RAM 224 MB, HDD 21
GB (a half of a 41 GB ATA Maxtor)
'Source 1' OS: Debian 6.0.10 (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Xfce), LILO dual-boot
with Windows XP
'Source 2' hardware: Compaq Presario CQ56 CPU Pentium Dual-Core T4500
2.30 GHz, RAM 1.37 GB, HDD 320 GB (encrypted LVM)
'Source 2' OS: only Debian 7.7 (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Xfce), LILO
'Target' hardware: Desktop CPU AMD Athlon 1.1 GHz, RAM 512 MB, HDD 41
GB (a half of a 82 GB ATA Maxtor)
'Target' OS: LILO for dual-boot with Windows XP
Regards,
M.
Going from an older CPU to a newer one shouldn't cause problems, and
going from a newer one to an older one is fine as long as it's not
extremely old. You might want to check and make sure that whatever
kernel is being used on Source 2 will support the CPU on Target. Memory
shouldn't ever cause problems, unless a machine simply doesn't have
enough. Dual booting also shouldn't be that difficult. I'm not sure if
LILO automatically picks up on your Windows install and adds it as a
boot option, but I know GRUB does.
The only issue is the hard drive space. Going from a smaller hard drive
to a larger one isn't a problem (dd the partition contents, then use the
appropriate resize program such as resize2fs), but going from a larger
partition to a smaller one is harder. Your best bet is to grab another
hard drive (well, you'll need one to boot off of anyway so you can copy
partitions around), copy the partition there, resize it down to the
minimum, copy it to the final disk, then resize it up to the full
partition size. Lastly, install the bootloader.
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