On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 13:49 +0200, Viesturs Lācis wrote: ... snip > I have no idea, what is dd.
dd is a Linux utility that does a direct copy from one stream to another (?). I just learned to use it to duplicate a hard drive by copying bit for bit from the original drive to the new drive. By having an exact copy with the same bits occupying the same locations on the drive, boot configuration, file systems and all else is duplicated. dd is a wonderful thing, when used properly. I've used it in the past to wipe out MBR's to upgrade hard drives from Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29 By the way, if the destination hard drive is larger than the original, a partition editor can be used to make the copied partition larger, for instance to fill the rest of the drive space. > I think that using System -> > Administration -> Startup disk creator is safer choice. In Lucid it is > installed by default. At least I love that tool. > It will ask for a destination USB drive and source .iso file and > wholaa! It will do all the small things, like creating the boot sector > etc. > I like that I still can use such a USB drive for storage - I simply > copy my files right next to the things that already are there, because > the Ubuntu install will use ~1GB. > > Viesturs I don't recall .iso's being bootable. The .iso contains an image of a bootable file system, but in the form of a single file. As far as I know, the .iso needs to be "decompressed" with a utility to make a bootable file system. usb-creator-gtk is commonly on our Ubuntu machines, and allows one to create a bootable USB thumb drive from an .iso file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Live_USB_creator -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
