pwabrahams
March 18th, 2011, 10:58 PM
I'd like to clone my running system onto a memory stick, to gain the benefits of updates, customizations, and additional programs I've installed. I see two difficulties with just using dd:
1. I have to get a snapshot of the system, since otherwise it will be changing as I do the operation. That I can do using a system in another partition.
2. The system probably has embedded references to /dev/sda or to the disk ID of the hard drive, which probably would not work when I'm running from the memory stick.
Ideas?
1. I have to get a snapshot of the system, since otherwise it will be changing as I do the operation. That I can do using a system in another partition.
2. The system probably has embedded references to /dev/sda or to the disk ID of the hard drive, which probably would not work when I'm running from the memory stick.
Ideas?