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Sometime Today, John Fernandes assembled some asciibets to say:

> Just wondering if there is any way I can make an exact copy of linux
> installed on harddisk1 to harddisk2? so that linux will boot, from
> harddisk2

First make the same size partitions.  This is important.  Don't format or
create a file system.  Now, dd in raw mode like:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 ....

or something like this - basically change for the partitions.  You can
figure out what other options are required from the man.

Philip

-- 
vuja de:
        The feeling that you've *never*, *ever* been in this situation before.


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