dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Mike, what's exactly what you want to do?
Forget the boot record, give me the BIG picture.
Enrique 

 

mike havens writes: 

> what do I copy to copy the MBR.... If I remember correctly it is track
> zero. dd  if=hda1...
> how do I tell it which byte to start on and where to end and how do I
> figure this on the hd being copied? 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> dd if=hda1 bs=<?> of=windows<date> bs=<?>
>> what about the byte size thing? How should I figure that out; or do I
>> need to worry about it?
>> I was planning on copying to a cd but I think it would be a neat thing
>> to copy different images to the same disk. I looked for but had
>> problems  finding the compression option. Would you explain it to me?
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
>>
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