On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:08:44 -0400
James Tremblay
Forgot to add that you need to create mount points such as /proc, maybe /dev, /sys. And I think you may need to exclude them from tar when creating the image file. Per, Thank you for the answer. That is a really complicated process, I imagine that you are telling me this needs to be done to each recipient? could it be set up as a pxe boot task? What about bit transfer type solutions like Ghost? Is there no way of setting a running system back to the hardware discovery process? could one re-invoke YaST-install at the last stage (after first reboot, when the system believes it has all its files in place?
A couple of things:
1. Take a look at CloneZilla http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/
2. AFAIK, the virtual file systems, such as /proc are strictly virtual
and are created on the fly.
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Jerry Feldman