alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
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> 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.
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> If I boot from the CD drive with LNX-BBC (Linux bootable business card) can I just issue the command
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> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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> and accomplish this?
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> 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...
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