No, it won't. But you'll have to 'grub-install' anyway if you are going to dual-boot. I'm sure you'll have to dink around with GRUB after the (cumbersome in my opinion) 'Clonezilla' anyway. ET Stephen writes: > rsync will not rebuild your boot data however. > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:56 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com < > kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: > >> Hello Joe, if I was you I'd forget about 'Clonezilla' and go either rsync >> or tar: >> I'd boot with a CD (Debian live is perfect) and: >> rsync -xaHDC --super /my/mounted/partition root@remotebox:/my/new/** >> partition >> or >> tar jcf - /my/mounted/partition| >> ssh root@remotebox 'cd /my/new/partition;tar jxf -' >> YMMV... >> ET >> >> joe@actionline.com writes: >> >>> After reading and watching several youtube tutorials about clonezilla, >>> remastersys, relinux, monodorescue, maketecheasier, live-magic, >>> linux-live, revisor, instalinux, and several more, I am thoroughly >>> confused. The best tutorial I've seen so far was this one: >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=490n_VoldUg-- however, it shows how to do >>> a complete system backup and restore and does not explain how to clone a >>> single partition from one system and install that partition on a different >>> system in a dual-boot arrangement. >>> I have Kubuntu Linux installed on an IBM Thinkpad and I would like to >>> install that Linux partition on my Lenovo Q150 net-top on which I have >>> shrunk the windows-7 partition to half of the 250-gig HD and created >>> 100-gig of free space on the rest of that HD so as to have both available >>> in a dual-boot arrangement. Do I need to install Kubuntu on the Lenovo >>> first? Or what is the best procedure to achieve the desired dual-boot? >>> >>> ------------------------------**--------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss