Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 14-Jul-00 by Link World:

> Your Solution appears fine for a networked environment. But How do I
> do a DiskCopy? In Windows, I set up a secondary master, format it,
> and use Diskcopy c: d: /e/c/q/h/r/y from dos box. The resulting disk
> when installed in the new system does not boot, so I set the bootable
> patron from Fdisk and the system is fully replicated. All program
> files & settings work. Is there any such DISKDUMP facility from hda
> to hdb in LINUX?

If both drives are of the same size, simply do:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
 
This will exactly duplicate everything, including partition tables,
from master on primary (hda) to master on secondary (hdc).  No
formatting or DOS box needed.

hth

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