Moving an entire installation

[[TC]»Elmo«]

I had to backup a system a couple of weeks ago (upgrading my 'TV' server failed miserably, long story).

I used a combination of GParted and partimage, both are included in SystemRescueCD

Unfortunately, it's quite a complicated process as you'll need 3 hard drives - the source, backup location and destination. I don't think you can safely do it directly from 1 drive to another. The backup location can be on another computer on the network, but it must have enough free space to hold the backup (which you can save compressed if you need to, but it'll take longer).

If that's the way you want to do it, I'll see if I can find/knock up a guide tomorrow.


p.s. you want 686 on a vaguely modern PC.
586 was the original Pentium/AMD-K5; 686 is Pentium Pro/II/III/AMD-K6, which basically everything is compatible with these days. 786 is P4/K7, but very few packages are built to require it.