I am trying it right now. I just think it is taking too long. They are identical 40GB, 100 DMA hard drives. I guess 40GB takes a while and I should have specified a start and end region since most of the drive is empty anyway. I also hope the high DMA does not prove a problem. Thanks for the quick response! Anybody else have $0.02 of input? Alan On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:15:36 -0700 "John (EBo) David" wrote: alandd@mindspring.com wrote: > > I have a master IDE drive all setup how I want. I want to copy the image of this drive, hda, to the slave drive, hdb. In the end, I want both drives to be exactly the same, boot record and all. > > If I boot from the CD drive with LNX-BBC (Linux bootable business card) can I just issue the command > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > and accomplish this? > > Is there some other command that does this correctly or better? that is how I copy old MSDOS floppys when I cannot find other appropriate programs... There may be an issue of the size of disk, and it may require them to be the same, etc. If it were me I would just try it and see if it works... EBo -- ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss