Re: Drive Image / Cloning

2003-01-10 Thread Volker Kindermann
What's a good way to clone / Image to another HD? I have 3 boxes that are the same and I have one that is done and ready and want to copy that install to the others. g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ g4u (ghost for unix) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC

Re: Drive Image / Cloning

2003-01-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This will copy all files and make it bootable? Sorry but the search on dd have no shown what I need. I've used (and tested) something like this dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/dev/ad0s2 bs=bytes per cyl to transfer an OS, but I recently tried it to a second disk and

Re: Drive Image / Cloning

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Everlund
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Mike wrote: Hi All What's a good way to clone / Image to another HD? I have 3 boxes that are the same and I have one that is done and ready and want to copy that install to the others. Cheers M;) # /bin/dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=16384 This I use in a cron-job to

Re: Drive Image / Cloning

2003-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-09T15:48:22Z, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # /bin/dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=16384 Not that the source drive *must* be mounted read-only (or the system running in single-user mode) for the results not to be massively corrupted. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est,

RE: Drive Image / Cloning

2003-01-09 Thread Mike
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drive Image / Cloning At 2003-01-09T15:48:22Z, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # /bin/dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/ad6 bs=16384 Not that the source drive *must* be mounted read-only (or the system running in single-user mode) for the results