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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 alex mclennan wrote: > Michael Mortimore wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:30:37 +0100, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Admittedly, this is rare: possibly a once in a lifetime experience. >>>> >>> It's not that rare actually. I used to do this a lot with Windows >>> 2000 & XP when creating a Ghost image for two sets of machines, one >>> with IDE drives, and another with SCSI drives. IIRC the trick was to >>> create the image on the lowest spec machine we could get away with >>> (in this case a P2-300 with 440LX chipset) and then it would work on >>> anything up to a P4 1.5GHz (this was going back to 2002). >> Yes. What I meant is it's rare to pluck a drive out of 1 machine and >> put it into another at random and have it work without preparation or >> advanced planning. >> This works with live cd's though, so in theory it should work with installed systems. Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrEdiYACgkQaggq1k2FJq0d2gCfbUWZzC1VuLDsF+aEcNqR1ixv JWoAnjfu+1iT4PIW2H7uUSUojD47vCEi =fuWv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html