Copying a whole installation onto another computer

[Arran]

Hello

I would like to install Kubuntu also on my wife's computer. In general she uses the same programmes like me. Regarding the fact, that we have such a slow broadband connection, under 60KiB/s I had the idea to mirror my now well installed system onto my wife's. She too does not use the personal folders under/home/name, saving all her files onto another hard disk.

Prior to that, I would open for her on my machine an user-account. As she would not use much of the distribution managment this is even better, she calls me for installing new or other programmes.

This would also mean when an dist-update is running, we could just make a new copy on my system and paste it to my wife's without upsetting any of her personal files.

Is there a way to do this?

[K-Project]

I suppose you could clone your install using something like Clonezilla, and then install the image onto the other PC, but I think you'll hit problems if the hardware setups are different. For example, if your main PC runs a graphics driver from nVidia, and the other machine uses ATI, you could have a lot of problems, although I will freely admit I have never done this. I do use Clonezilla but only for my main personal use on my desktop PC.

Perhaps someone else here will have a better idea than me.