Hi,

I'd like to clone a installed zenwalk box, and use it to install to other computers, i tried Norton Ghost, it does not work, any tips on this? Thanks,

Angelo

Technically not cloning, but...

Part the first: create a tarball backup

1. Exit X and go to single user (should be 'telinit s')

2. As root (obviously, it being single user) go to the root directory /.

3. Run this:

tar -czvpf backup.tar.gz --exclude=backup.tar.gz --exclude=tmp/* --exclude=proc/* --exclude=sys/* /

And wait for it to complete. This will build a tarball of your entire system and put it in the root directory.

(Note that I assume you have enough room in / for this. Also don't leave out the 'p' in '-czvpf', otherwise permissions won't be preserved and your 'clone' will not work.)

4. Burn the tarball to a data CD.

Part the second: extract the tarball where it's needed

1. Boot the target computer from a live CD. My favorite for this purpose is Parted Magic, but anything with a partitioner and udev will work fine.

2. Recreate the first machine's partition layout and mount the partitions. Or just create whatever partition layout you want - this can be dealt with later.

3. Mount the CD with the tarball on it. Extract the tarball to the new root directory like so:

tar -xzvpf backup.tar.gz -C /$mountpoint

($mountpoint being wherever you mount the new root. Again, don't leave out the 'p'!)

4. Mount necessary virtual filesystems:

mount --bind /proc /$mountpoint/proc
mount --bind /sys /$mountpoint/sys
mount --bind /dev /$mountpoint/dev

And chroot in:

chroot /$mountpoint /bin/bash

Run lilo, first editing lilo.conf as necessary. Edit fstab, again as necessary. Set the timezone if you want (/etc/localtime is the copy of the timezone file, localtime-copied-from is a symbolic link to it).

5. Exit the chroot (just type 'exit'), unmount everything, and reboot. On next boot you should have a working Zenwalk system. Boot, update, and enjoy.