Is the SLES 11.0 installation hardware independent? Meaning I have 2 systems, one base system on which I have installed and configured SLES11.0 I want to migrate it to another target system with different hardware configuration. Can I just copy the Clonezilla image from base machine to the target machine?
If anybody knows about Clonezilla, is there any way to restore system on a smaller size disk? My source image is taked from a bigger hard disk and I want to restore on a smaller disk. I also want to reduce the size of the image partition .
On 2011-10-01 23:26, dddeepak abc wrote:
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> Is the SLES 11.0 installation hardware independent? Meaning I have 2
You must be aware that this is not an SLES forum, but an openSUSE forum. We
are related, but many of us know little about SLES.
There are separate SLES forums. Same login/pass you use here.
> systems, one base system on which I have installed and configured
> SLES11.0 I want to migrate it to another target system with different
> hardware configuration. Can I just copy the Clonezilla image from base
> machine to the target machine?
In openSUSE it “might” work. Video is a problem. Sound will have to be
reconfigured, too.
> If anybody knows about Clonezilla, is there any way to restore system
> on a smaller size disk? My source image is taked from a bigger hard disk
> and I want to restore on a smaller disk. I also want to reduce the size
> of the image partition .
Dunno.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
In one sense, no Linux installation is hardware independent as partitions as well as video and sound are configured to suit the hardware available.
If the partitions are taken care then will the OS probe the hardware dynamically while booting and configure itself according to the new hardware?
On 2011-10-03 20:56, dddeepak abc wrote:
> If the partitions are taken care then will the OS probe the hardware
> dynamically while booting and configure itself according to the new
> hardware?
Mostly, yes. The kernel openSUSE distributes is “general”, modular, not
taylored to specific hardawre, with few exceptions: the main one is 32 vs
64 bit cpu. The other two are video (proprietary driver) and sound.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
No, because the partition table will be created as if it were on the original disk and some blocks beyond the end of the smaller disk may be in use. Restoring on a larger disk is safe, but space will be wasted. Clonezilla is not the tool if you want to shrink the partition. It clones, after all.