[TLUG] VMware question - changing to physical machine

[Simon]

Re: Ghost, dd does the same thing ( boot up a liveCD in the VM), but
tar would be faster and more flexible since you don't have to resize
the filesystem, and it'll only copy real data.  I've never used Ghost,
though.

On 12/13/06, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> (Hrm). Ya that would work (the other utiltiies may work but I can not afford
> them heh) I don't know why didn't think of that other than I have to format
> my suse partition to put gentoo  on it. But I can easily burn it on a dvd.
>
> I was also advised Norton Ghost May work too (ghosting a vmware instance)
>
>
> On 12/13/06, Simon <simon80-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org > wrote:
> >
> > Err, if you want to do it manually, and for free, just tar up the
> > gentoo filesystem, making sure to preserve ownership and perms,
> > extract it where you like (again preserving ownership and perms), and
> > then follow the instructions in the Gentoo Handbook for configuring
> > grub in order to get it running again.
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