On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Peter Beardsley wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering if it's possible if you have two identical physical > hard drives to copy one onto the other such that you could boot off the > copy? Will dd do that? It's unclear to me what happens when you're > dealing with multiple partitions, and I don't have a machine with 2 drives > in it to play with right now.
dd will do this just fine, just keep in mind the target needs to be as big as (or bigger ) than the source. As we're copying everything, regardless of if there's actually data or not. Oh, one other thing...boot off a third drive. you don't want open files on the drive you're copying from! --rdp -- Rich Payne http://talisman.mv.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
