[gentoo-user] making multiple copies of the system

I've constructed system A, now I want to clone it to make systems B and C.
The machines I have have hot pluggable disks so my strategy was to
partition a second disk identically and then physically copy the boot
and root partitions using dd. This does not seem to work; the disk
boots but gets a kernel panic "init not found" which seems strange.

Any suggestions as to how to clone the system and have it work?


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> Any suggestions as to how to clone the system and have it work?

Have a look at the partimage tool : http://www.partimage.org/
It's also in portage.

brgds.

S.

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