[balug-talk] cloning a Debian installation

[Dan Lyke]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:28:17 -0800, Jonathan Jefferies wrote:
> stress recently. But is Debian so different that it doesn't clone the
> same as other distro's?

I think "dd", with all of its limitations, works the same across the  
board. But something I have several times found myself doing on Debian  
or Ubuntu machines is having different kernel, partition or whatever  
else setups, and trying to maintain the same packages between them.

For instance my house and colo server are both running Debian, my  
Linux development box runs Ubuntu, and I've used a variant of Will  
Lowe's answer to make sure that I didn't have any surprise library  
dependencies when I deployed from the Ubuntu box onto the other to  
machines.

And that's just what life is like with my personal toys, my  
professional life is far more interesting.

Dan