i can do xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /c /h /e /k
on fat32, for disk dupes works great for me, i dont have to worry bout geometry/sizes. if we can get the "cp" equivalents for those switches, then, all will be fine, I THINK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:45:37PM -0700, plug bert wrote: >> Hello! >> >> i know this is possible, but i've never really >> tried this extensively: is it advisable to use dd as a >> disk cloner? > >Yes, it will work, but I don't know if it's really advisable to do so. >For it to *work* you just need to be 100% sure that your disks are 100% >physically identical. I actually did this to avoid installing Windows >16 times on otherwise physically identical machines. It takes a long >time though; cloning 4GB hard disks on UDMA33 took about 45 minutes or >so, so it took a couple of days to do all that work (still a lot faster >than installing Windows manually though!). Make sure you do it >single-user for best results. > >-- >Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 >Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 >http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 >_ >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
