augie wrote:
> Hey Pluggers,
> Anyone know of a program that'll clone a hd like ghost? I'm trying to clone a 
> hd that has xp on another box and then install linux to have a dual boot 
> system or do I need to step away from the crack pipe?
> Has anybody done this before? Any pointers?
> TIA
Hey Augie,

dd (linux utility) can clone a hd. I don't know about Ghost, so I can't 
compare the two.

If your new drive is larger than the one you're cloning, it's pretty 
trivial. Simply put the two drives on the same machine, boot a live CD, 
then: "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024" from the command line. That 
copies the entire primary master (if=/dev/hda) to the primary slave 
(of=/dev/hdb) drive, leaving the excess capacity on the target drive 
available for a Linux install.

Let us know if you need further guidance.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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