From: "kitepilot"
> Hello Joe, if I was you I'd forget about [using] Clonezilla [to clone
> one machine to another machine] and go either rsync or tar:
>
> I'd boot with a CD (Debian live is perfect) and:
> rsync -xaHDC --super /my/mounted/partition \
> root@remotebox:/my/new/partition
While this will copy all the files from the old partition on the old machine
to the new partition on the new machine, it won't do a thing about the
bootloader. That means the new machine won't be able to boot Linux, since you
haven't installed GRUB. Installing GRUB should be relatively easy, though:
# N is the GRUB device number of your /boot, or your / if you don't
# have a /boot
# sda1 = (hd0,0) , sda2 = (hd0,1) , etcetera.
livecd-on-new-machine:~# grub
grub> root(hd0,N) # tells GRUB where to look for its files
grub> setup(hd0) # installs GRUB to MBR/slackspace of first disk
grub> quit # done
Or try grub-install. Note that these steps probably won't work for GRUB2 or
GPT partition tables, so modify that if you're dealing with those things.
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