just an idea

[drhadidy]

i had an idea and i want to ask if it would work or not...
if i copied the whole / partition from a working system and just pasted it in a formated clean / partition in another computer....
will this result in a working system which is a replica of the first system??
would it work fine or not??

[slax]

You would have to reinstall grub to change the boot record of the hdd...
And if you have different hardware on other comp some things may not work.

The best way is to make a remaster/snapshot of your system, burn the iso and install it on other machine.

[menotu]

Pretty certain copy/paste wouldn't work.

As slax says you could do a remaster and install that on the other PC(s)

Another option would be to image it - see the following link for Partimage:

http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page

Or Clonezilla

http://www.clonezilla.org/

[uncleV]

i had an idea and i want to ask if it would work or not...
if i copied the whole / partition from a working system and just pasted it in a formated clean / partition in another computer....
will this result in a working system which is a replica of the first system??
would it work fine or not??

Why not try?
On the same hardware, on the same partition (name, size and type). After that try remastering MBR from LiveCD.
It's curious if it'll work

[pags]

It'll probably work (if the copy is done right)...I've done plain installs on USB Harddrives (NOT thumbdrives), and moved them from PC to PC with varying hardware configs, without issue (when needing a proprietary video driver such as ATi or nVidia, it might have to be installed, and then reconfigure later when moved off, but other than that...)

Be sure to copy as root, and get all the permission bits correct (cp -a, I think?), or better yet, try rsync (rsync -a source dest ... read the man page)...

May have to edit fstab, and re-install grub, depending on the destination details, but it should work 

[MBantz]

Just recommended Clonezilla in another thread,

for easy cloning, try and use the drbl live distrobution - it's a breeze here (has been so far) and is able to let clients boot via network boot (PXE) for cloning and restoring, i.e. no usbkey boot or cd bootdisk necessary,

cheers,
MBantz