[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[John Novack]

I use Acronis True Image version 9.0
I am not sure if it works with USB drives, though
I use a PIII that can boot from CD-ROM, booting the Acronis disk created 
once you install it on a Windows machine, then it sees two IDE drives 
and you can go from there.
It handles different geometry, and will expand to a larger drive 
proportionately, or you can manually adjust partition sizes.
The cloned drive should boot and appear as if it was the original, if 
all goes well.
I have had problems with the software on some Pentium IV machines.

Version 9 is not a current version, so I cannot speak to the later ones.
Other cloning software doesn't handle Linux drives properly if at all

John Novack

Donald Froula wrote:
> John, what application did you use to clone your
> drives? I have several 6 Gbyte drives identical to the
> one I hacked into my Wyse thin client, and would like
> to clone the drive for easy recovery, if the drive
> fails.
>
> I've tried some of the free Linux code available, but
> none have successfully created an image to my external
> USB drive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
> --- John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Boy, you Brits really know how to start a religious
>> argument!!
>>
>> My choice has been, for better or worse, CentOS.
>> CentOS version 3 works well on 1.2 versions
>> CentOS 4/5 seems to be required on the 1.4 versions
>> So far I have seen no reason to move to 1.4, though
>> some have for 
>> various reasons
>> Many on the Asterisk users list consider 1.4 still
>> unstable, though I 
>> doubt any of the Cnet uses will be affected.
>> I always install everything ( moans from the Linux
>> gurus here ) but I 
>> have found it easier to install everything and then
>> turn off services I 
>> don't need, rather than later battle some cryptic
>> message regarding a 
>> missing dependency that I can't fix or know where to
>> stick a file.
>> I also use the full, rather than the server version,
>> and do an update 
>> from yum before proceeding to Asterisk.
>> I have cloned several hard drives for others on CNET
>> with fair success, 
>> saving having to start from scratch every time.
>> Easier to change a machine name and such than
>> reinstall everything from 
>> scratch.
>> Acronis version 9 handles Linux disks well, even
>> when the geometry isn't 
>> the same.
>>
>> Others can comment on the other religions. I suppose
>> it is down to 
>> whatever we have been imprinted with in our early
>> Linux days, and what 
>> we have become familiar with.
>> I have dabbled in the Debian pool, but have not met
>> with any success.
>>
>> John Novack
>>
>>
>> Jonathan Kay wrote:
>>     
>>> Chaps.
>>>  If you started from scratch now, what would be
>>>       
>> your Linux distro of 
>>     
>>> choice for a purely Asterisk box?
>>> I'm building a few machines to pass on at cost
>>>       
>> price.
>>     
>>> CentOS 4, was available in a "Server" edition. I
>>>       
>> had problems compiling 
>>     
>>> the latest zaptel with that and had to upgrade
>>>       
>> kernel etc. CentOS 5, 
>>     
>>> doesn't offer the server edition.
>>>
>>> Fedora 5, and 6, I think had kernel version
>>>       
>> issues, again I had lots of 
>>     
>>> trouble compiling Asterisk with FC6. I don't know
>>>       
>> if 7 is ok?
>>     
>>> Ubuntu is great, I use desktop and server
>>>       
>> versions. But it is Debian 
>>     
>>> based, and the community here and on the UK list
>>>       
>> tend to use flavours of 
>>     
>>> Red Hat with Asterisk, so getting CNET support
>>>       
>> might be more tricky.
>>     
>>> Comments welcome !?
>>>
>>> Jon
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