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basically its a mini linux PC running a weird/unhelpful config which will make your life a little harder. its not a single 'image' that can be copied across as per your original thought

basically the disk is partitioned with 4 'main' partitions

one for your data ( listed as /dev/sdb2 in teh partition table on teh wiki )
3 for the OS

/dev/sdb7 is teh 'core OS'
/dev/sdb8 is the custom interface etc

teh above 2 stay static and never change

/dev/sdb9 is where all your config and teh day to day stuff 'runs'

so to achieve what you want to you will need to do teh following

get a blank disk
partition it as per the listed part table
format ( for safety I would use teh same ext3/xfs mix they did )
then you need to deal with each of teh partitions in their own right

if you have a PC that can take both source and target disks in addition to its own host ( LINUX/ OSX/*NIX needed ) OS then you can do it easily on teh fly using teh dd command specifying source and target partitions.

it sounds quite complex but isn't really, just a bit fiddly and time consuming and you need to be critically careful when doing the copy or you could splat the good disk with teh empty one and lose it all.

all in in a decent desktop PC you probably couild do it in a couple of hours


maybe not what you wanted to hear and with disks being relavitely cheap it may not be worth your time/effort it all depends on how much you value 2-3 hours of your life at.