If it is IDENTICAL then yes, otherwise set up the partitions on the target disk, mount
them and use cpio to copy the files across, then install lilo and that should be it.
I would suggest however that you be booted from a floppy and not have /dev/hda mounted
so you don't get anything writing while you are copying.
I have used ghost (www.ghost.com) to do some duplicating too - although lately I've
been having big problems trying to ghost a Win98 box - windows seems to complain when
I boot the target disk - otherwise it works well and 'supports' Linux.
Matt
At Tuesday, 26/09/2000 03:33 PM (+1000), Michael wrote:
>I have two identical hard drives. One has live OS on it, and the other is
>completely empty. No partitations at all, and no data.
>
>Would the following work;
>
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=64k
>
>To duplicate the entire disk of /dev/hda to the disk /dev/hdb
>
>And once it is done.. would the 2nd disk be bootable? and would the first
>disk be intact?
>
>Thanks
>Michael
>
>
>
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