Install and Clone

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

Hey guys.. remember me? I'm back with more wierd ideas.

I was wondering... would it be possible for me to compile everything for my ibm x20 on my desktop in vmware and then later "ghost" it onto my laptop? If i boot vmware from livecd, and compile everything to the x20 hardware specs it should work?

Thanks

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:26 am Post subject:

I don't know....

Just try it and post the result

skunk · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:58 am Post subject:

why compiling inside vmware?
if your desktop is a x86 system, just do an installation inside a chroot environment (like you would do with the livecd) and transfer the installation to your laptop...
it will be a lot faster than compiling inside vmware...

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

lol.. cuz i cant afford the down time. =P anyways i luv my dual 19's . i'd hate to use a 12 inch screen at home while i compile. but yeah. why not. i'll try it and post results here

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

what would be the most effective way of 'cloning' just zipping everything? or use a utility like ghost?

Kaste · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

Well given you have the same partitioning scheme zipping or rather tar.gzing it should suffice provided you reinstall grub/lilo and adjust your fstab and everything else that could possibly change, which is quite a lot. I'd say at the very least you need a new kernel config if you haven't taken all of it into account already.
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aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

yep. well. im doing everything chrooted from live cd. so from the beginning all use flags marches and kernels will be built for my laptop. the fstab should be the same too. any other concerns?

piotrwoj · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 9

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject:

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

well.. here goes! it works guys!

and basically if anyone wants to try this its like this.

1. create vmware system to your liking
2. boot from install-cd or livecd. (i used them interchangingly whichever one wasn't used as a coaster on my desk =P)
3. follow directions from gentoo handbook until kernel compilation
4. compile kernel to your computer's hardware standards. (the computer where the final destination is)
5. install grub to hd. (if needed)
6. shutdown vmware, and plug in second hd (laptop hd)
7. add destination hd to vmware as second disk
8. mount the 2 drives through live cd
9. cp -r * from one hd to the other
10. modify fstab as needed.
11. boot on new comp!

took me about a day to finish it all. xfce4.4, and beryl on my IBM Thinkpad X41

erik258 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

sry. my bad. add a -p trigger to the cp command as well to preserve ownership and timestamps

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

is your computer for the compilation running widows?
because you also have colinux...

jt_ · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 61

aych · Guru Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 304

this was vmware on windows . i was too lazy to try out co linux. last time i did that i ran into some major difficulties but that was about 3 years back