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Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

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On Sb, 22 ian 22, 09:40:39, David Christensen wrote:
> 
> A simple case is to image the entire device.  Boot the Debian Installer
> (d-i) (or a live Linux distribution) and use dd(1) to copy the entire USB
> drive to the entire HDD:
> 
> # dd bs=1M if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-... of=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-...
> 
> 
> When done, shut down the computer, disconnect the USB drive, boot the
> computer, enter the CMOS setup utility, adjust the settings, save the
> settings, exit Setup, and boot the HDD.
> 
> 
> Of course, the number of sectors on the target device must be equal to or
> larger than the number of allocated sectors on the source device. And, if
> the device uses GPT partitioning, you must deal with the backup partition
> table at the end.

It seems one can avoid such issues simply by cloning only the file 
system instead.

At least e2image (with the -a switch) seems to be able to do that, other 
file systems might have their own tools for that.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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