Too cool! Funny, I've been into Linux for about 3 years and never heard of 'nc' ... had to rush off and install netcat. When I've needed to clone I've been burning a system image cd on the clone'r, then using Toms root on the clone'e to partition then chroot, untar from the cd, run lilo, blahblah. This way would be way cooler. I wonder if you could multicast this somehow. -jh "Austad, Jay" wrote: > So, since I don't have a copy of ghost, and I don't think ghost works with > Linux anyway, I used a couple of commands which did the same thing. > > I need to clone one of my machines to about 10 other ones. And because of > the level of customization, it would take forever to do by hand. So, I > downloaded Tom's root boot floppy from http://www.toms.net. The machine I > needed to clone was booted in read-only mode, it had an ip of 10.10.220.53. > I then booted the other machine with Tom's root boot disk and gave it the ip > 10.10.220.21. On the one I wanted to clone to, I did: > nc -l -n -v -p 6666 > /dev/sda > > On the machine I wanted to clone from, I did: > cat /dev/sda | nc -n -v 10.10.220.21 6666 > > After a couple of hours, the command finished. I unplugged the network > cable from the new machine (since it was a clone with the same ip as the > other one), and rebooted. It cloned the MBR, the partition table, and all > of the data. The machine seems to work perfectly. I changed the ip on it, > and stuck it into production and it's been performing flawlessly all > morning. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- John Hawley BGEA/ITS <=> Network Admin 612.335.1334 jhawley at bgea.org