Can I install Red Hat Enterprise Linux from a drive image of an existing server to a new machine?

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You can probably install via this method but ,this is not recommended.

To be successful you would need to copy the entire drive to a new one that is absolutely identical geometry-wise (Cylinders, Heads, Sectors) or use 3rd party software such as Symantec's Ghost ™. In addition, all the machine specific settings like hostname, IP address, and even

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