On 5/5/2011 10:36 AM, ken wrote: > > The most time-consuming part of the job was finding the particular > command with the correct args that actually worked-- not the command or > utility that "should" work or that "theoretically ought to" work-- but > one which in fact *did* work. So if anyone actually finds a faster way > to clone a system-- meaning they've run the command(s), and done the > testing to determine that it was successful-- I'm all ears. That's what clonezilla is all about. And it is released frequently on both debian and ubuntu (the 'alternative' version) live bases so it has pretty good hardware handling. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com