A different way of installing Fedora

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-09-25 21:33 (GMT-0400) Gavin Flower composed:
> On 26/09/13 13:26, David wrote:
>> On 9/25/2013 9:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>>> On 09/25/2013 05:45 PM, David wrote:
>>>> On 9/25/2013 7:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>>>>> Several of my machies have SATA hot swap ports.
>>>>> These make it easy to use smaller drives as backup media.
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>>>>> I slipped that drive in my omen.com server and changed
>>>>> the boot order to boot that drive.  I changed hostname and
>>>>> domainname, restored some of my control files, and omen.com
>>>>> was back on the air relatively quickly.
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>> Sounds like a eclectic procedure and situation to me.
>> More clearly said? Name two other people with your situation please.

> This a procedure, that I might like to do something like.
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> I suspect that there will be more than 3 people interested.

What good is a backup disk if it can't be substituted for a failed one? What 
you're talking about, taking the backup and making it primary in a different 
system, is a form of cloning that I've been doing for at least a decade. With 
DOS, OS/2, OS X & Linux, it's often an order of magnitude less painful and 
time consuming than a standard installation. My currently booted 24/7 OS/2 
"installation" was made probably 10 years ago, and has survived at least 5 
motherboards (starting with K6/2, currently Core2Duo) and as many or more 
HDs, in addition to the clones being temporarily hosted by yet other systems. 
I have too many Linux installations made via cloning to count, Fedora 
particularly (in spite of recent need for dracut-nohostonly installation for 
it work reliably), since I've never much liked any version of Anaconda I've used.
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