My thoughts as well, Lawson, but one thing ... will this make the copied
disk bootable, or does one need to run lilo on it after doing the copy? I'd
assume you still need to run lilo, but perhaps someone should test this?
(I'm not set up to, I fear.)
At 11:58 AM 11/23/99 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [in part]:
>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Niclas Hedhman wrote [in part]:
>> I want to make 5 binary copies of a particular harddisk. They are all
>> same brand and model.
>>
>> It can't be as simple as;
>> dd </dev/hda >/dev/hdb
>>
>Why not? Provided none of them has any defective blocks or other
>anomalies. Maybe fiddle with the bs= to see if you can make it run
>faster. You will probably copy a lot of empty space.
>
>I would be inclined to make and mount a fs, mount the from, and use tar
>to copy:
>
>tar -C <from mount point> -cO . |tar -C <to mount point> xf -
>
>but that is more trouble, and I don't know a way to make FI a fat32 FS
>if such was involved.
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