[ale] Disk Image Question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Charles -

I'm not a big fan of the procedure myself, but a few people here have
indicated that what you are saying is essentially correct.  The effect
you're describing would basically walk around the reasons why Ghosting is
generally discouraged for machine-to-machine "brain transplants" for NT.
Now, you could obviously get yourself in trouble if you've compiled your
kernel a certain way or left out certain modules in your Ghost "donor" that
you might wind up needing later, but by the same token, you can turn that
into a strength by including additional drivers for NICs, etc.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Marcus [mailto:CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 5:28 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Disk Image Question
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am very new to Linux, but a seasoned Winbloze NT
> sufferer - er, administrator, so please bear with me...
> 
> I will be contracting out the creation of Server
> configurations, and I am very interested in using Ghost to
> manage disk images in Linux.  I have been told by some more
> knowledgeable than myself that Linux is not nearly as picky
> about NT as far as hardware goes - that if driver support is
> available in the kernel for the hardware in the box, I can
> literally move a Linux drive (ghosted or not) between
> different machines (Celeron, AMD Athlon or PII/PIII,
> different mobo's, video and NIC's, etc), and when Linux
> boots it will automatically detect the different
> hardware/platform and adjust itself accordingly.
> 
> Is this true?
> 
> Potential problems?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -------
> 
> Charles Marcus
> 
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