Duplicating a harddrive

OK, I got ahold of some bad crack, but what does

mkhybrid - create an hybrid ISO9660/JOLIET/HFS filesystem
with optional Rock Ridge attributes. Includes support
for making bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs.

have to do with "duplicating a drive?"


If I have two identical hard drives (physically; the
difference being that one has its bits arranged in a
way I like), and I want to duplicate one to the other,
the solution (for me) is to boot to a third hard drive
(or a floppy) to ensure that neither my source hard
drive nor my target hard drive have any mounted filesystems/
activity, and dd from one to the other. If I were really
cautious, and the drives were SCSI, I would strap the
read-only jumper pins on the source hard drive.


My N$2,

D

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, J. Francois wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:02:43 -0700
> From: "J. Francois" <frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Duplicating a harddrive
>
> mkhybrid
>
> It seems like on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 08:07:32PM -0700, D. Taylor scribbled:
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> dd
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, The Wolf wrote:
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:45:15 -0700
> Orig Msg> > From: The Wolf <xanadu@speedchoice.com>
> Orig Msg> > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Orig Msg> > To: PLUG <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Orig Msg> > Subject: Duplicating a harddrive
> Orig Msg> >
> Orig Msg> > Hi
> Orig Msg> >
> Orig Msg> > I have finally managed to get my whole system setup to
> Orig Msg> > a point I like it. Now I am thinking of backing it up
> Orig Msg> > how can I duplicate a drive or what other methods
> Orig Msg> > can I implement to be able to back it up??
> Orig Msg> >
> Orig Msg> > The Wolf
> Orig Msg> >
>
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