[ale] semi OT: ubuntu from vmware to physical

[Preston]

On 7/3/2014 10:34 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Hello wizards :)
>
> Friend of mine ( sort of web developer ) has ubuntu vmware install on
> windows host. Now he is decided to move the same install to partition
> on the same windows harddrive. I suggest to free space on the disk and
> create new partition + swap then to attach the new partition under
> vmware ubuntu machine -> run some live distro and copy ubuntu install
> to the new physical partition. Then should be grub install game.
>
> Do I missing something and giving him some bad ideas :)
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fsarchiver might be your friend here.

I wonder if you could do a base install of ubuntu in the physical
partition.  that would take care of all the grub things.  then restore
fsarchiver data overwriting said physical partition with the already
configured things from the vmware system.

might be fun.

Preston

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