Originally Posted By: mlord
Originally Posted By: AndrewT
For the benefit of a complete and utter n00b, why didn't you suggest bit copying one entire drive to the other i.e. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb ?

Because he forgot about the bootloader.. smile

I actually almost always put the bootloader on the root partition rather than in the MBR, to the point where I forgot about that possibility. Also, copying partition-by-partition means you can leave out the partitions you don't need to copy, like the swap space, or maybe a data-only partition that doesn't need to be ported, which will save time.
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