**** HOW to clone a system to another system manually : **** - boot from flop (boot + root) - check the disk with fdisk /dev/hda and change if necessary so that it looks as follows : hda1 : 1 - +2000M 83 (linux Native) hda2 : ??? - +2000M b (Windows FAT 32) hda4 : 514? - +120M 82 (linux Swap) - If you changed the hda1 size reformat it manually using : mke2fs -s 1 -m1 -b 1024 /dev/hda1 - If you changed the swap size reformat it using : mkswap /dev/hda4 - Set the networkadress : ifconfig eth0 192.168.20.?? netmask 255.255.255.128 - Mount /dev/hda1 : mkdir /disk mount /dev/hda1 /disk - Mount the root one of the servers : mkdir /server mount 192.168.20.2:/ /server - If the server is ready copy all contents from the server to the client : (The server needs to have X, Tex etc installed so we don't have to do 25 times) cd /server find bin boot dev etc lib home mnt root sbin tmp usr var vmlinuz opt | \ /server/bin/cpio -pdumv /disk - do NOT copy /proc , but make a new /proc dir instead : mkdir /disk/proc - change the HOSTNAME and IP adres in /etc and /etc/rc.d vi /disk/etc/HOSTNAME (linux??.course.bandung) vi /disk/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 (IPADRES=192.168.20.??) - rerun lilo : /disk/sbin/lilo -r /disk - Reboot and see if it works ! - Format the DOS partition for later use : mkdosfs -v -F 32 /dev/hda2